Vocabulary
A term that means "an enemy, opponent"
Adversary
This character is accused of witchcraft for using a poppet
Elizabeth
This Republican Senator from Wisconsin led the anti-communist crusade in the early 1950s, giving rise to the term "McCarthyism."
Joseph McCarthy
"I will fall like an ocean on that court!"
Simile
"More weight"
Giles Corey
A term that means "cowardly"
Craven
This character is accused of witchcraft for "singing Barbados songs"
Tituba
Hollywood/film industry
"The hour before the devil feel, God thought him beautiful in heaven"
Allusion
Reverend Hale
A term that means "given to fighting, warlike; combative, aggressive"
Belligerent
This character is accused of witchcraft for "sending out a yellow bird" to hurt the afflicted
Mary Warren
This is the decade in which the McCarthyism trials took place
The 1950's
Making accusations is a pattern that occurs in the play
Motif
"There is a faction that is sworn to drive me from my pulpit!"
Reverend Parris
A term that means "not affected or hurt by; impenetrable"
Impervious
This character is accused of witchcraft for "the supernatural murder of Goody Putnam's babies"
Rebecca Nurse
The foreign political state, famously led by Joseph Stalin, that America feared
The Soviet Union
The audience knows that Parris caught the girls dancing in the woods, but not everyone in the play knows this
Dramatic irony
"I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you"
Abigail Williams
A term that means "not combed; untidy; not properly maintained"
Unkempt
This character is accused of being "The Devil's Man"
John Proctor
This term is used to describe the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without adequate evidence
A "witch hunt"
The play ends by John Proctor refusing to confess and walking proudly to the gallows
Denouement
John Proctor