Literary Devices
This vocabulary term uses phrases such as "like" or "as" when comparing two things.
What is a simile?
A woman from Barbados who was accused of performing voodoo.
Who is Tituba?
Mary gives this to Elizabeth.
What is a doll with a needle in it?
This argument is made by Parris about Proctor during court.
What is Proctor is trying to overthow the court?
These two men urge deputy governor Danforth to postpone the witchcraft trials due to a possible rebellion in the town?
Hale and Parris.
This term was used when Proctor was asked to recite the ten commandments. He left out "Thou shall not commit adultery" but had an affair with Abigail.
What is irony?
Parris discovered Abigail and Betty doing this in the forest.
What is dancing and running around the fire screaming?
Hale asks John to do this.
What is recite the ten commandments?
Mary Warren tells Danforth this in court.
What is the girls are all pretending?
John admits this in his confession.
What is he saw the Devil?
This term is used as Abigail has feelings for Proctor, and also has a hatred for Elizabeth. Elizabeth is then later accused of witchcraft.
This jumped in the soup during the dancing.
What is a frog and a chicken?
This make the poppet significant.
What is the poppet is stuck with a needle, which is believed to be voodoo?
Giles accuses Putnam of this.
What is killing his neighbors for their land?
These are Giles Corey's last words.
What is more weight.
This term was used throughout the story as it was tragic, and serious.
What is tone?
Goody Osburn is accused of this because of what Tituba has told Mrs. Putnam.
What is because the babies she helped deliver all died in her arms?
Elizabeth tells John to do this in court.
What is tell that Abby is lying and tell the truth about the affair so Abby cannot be trusted?
Hawthorne thinks of this test for Mary Warren during court.
What is to faint?
This is Herrick's reasoning for drinking.
What is it warms him up?
This term is used as "At the back is the high barred window, near it, a great, heavy door. Along the walls are two benches."
What is imagery?
Abigail wished for this when she drank the blood.
What is she wished for John Proctor's wife to be dead?
This news was brought back with Mary after court.
What is Elizabeth's name has been brought up?
This happens to Proctor after court.
What is his conscience?