“…and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it…”
Who is Abigail? (p. 19)
100
• Title of the play: The Crucible
What is symbol? (someone who can withstand pressure)
100
Reverend Parris’ black slave from Barbados, she conjures spirits when asked to by several girls.
Who is Tituba?
100
Parris says to Abigail, “Your name in the town—it is entirely white, is it not?”
Unblemished reputation, pure
100
Inclined to seek revenge.
What is Vindictive?
200
“I cannot speak but I am doubted, every moment judged for lies, as though I come into a court when I come into this house!”
Who is John Proctor? (p.52)
200
Mary says to Elizabeth: “I made a gift for you today.”
What is irony and/or foreshadowing? (The doll was not a gift really, used as the means to bring Elizabeth to court to be tried.)
200
A young girl who used to be a servant but was fired due to accusations of lechery. She is smart, wily, and a good liar.
Who is Abigail Williams?
200
“He [John Proctor] gets up, goes to her, kisses her. She receives it.”
Shows no love or affection between them; instead, there is awkwardness and coldness.
200
A submission to opinions of others.
What is Deference?
300
“I take it on my soul, but who else may surely tell us what person murdered my babies?”
Who is Mrs. Putnam? (p. 15)
300
Proctor says to Elizabeth: “But I wilted, and, like a Christian, I confessed.”
What is simile?
300
A minister from another town reputed to be an expert on witchcraft.
Who is Rev. John Hale?
300
Hale says, “We shall need hard study if it comes to tracking down the Old Boy.”
Satan, the devil, suggests familiarity with him
300
Hurtful lies, slander.
What is Calumny?
400
“I hear a voice, a screamin’ voice, and it were my voice—and all at once I remember everything she done to me!”
Who is Mary Warren? (p. 55)
400
Abigail says to Hale: “I want to open myself!”
What is irony? (She doesn’t want to “open” herself; she wants to conceal herself and put the attention on others to make herself look better, more innocent.)
400
A wise, sensible old woman, held in tremendous regard by the townspeople.
Who is Rebecca Nurse?
400
Mrs. Putnam says, “There are wheels within wheels in this village, and fires within fires!”
Suggests that there is something mysterious going on, unknown forces acting out.
400
The act of damaging a reputation by lying.
What is Defamation?
500
“The court bid me search your house… so will you hand any poppets that your wife may keep here?”
Who is Ezekiel Cheever? (p. 69)
500
Elizabeth says to John: “Abigail brings the other girls into the court, and where she walks the crowd will part like the sea for Israel.”
What are allusion and simile?
500
A man from Salem who acts as a clerk in the court. He goes house-to-house arresting the accused and brings them to court.
Who is Ezekiel Cheever?
500
Hale says to proctor, “There is a softness in your record, sir, a softness.”
What is- shows that Hale thinks there is something wrong with what John is saying. His record has some flaws.