Literary Analysis and Vocabulary
The Mayflower Compact and Of Plymouth Plantation
Puritan Poetry
"Sinners"
The Crucible
100

The difficulty a character faces

What is "conflict"?

100

Name of the town the Pilgrims founded

What is "Plymouth"?

100

Wrote "Huswifery"

Edward Taylor

100

"Sinners" is about God's wrath on sinners and He can at anytime send them to here.

What is "hell"?

100

She is the main character; leader of the girls

Who is Abigail Williams?

200

The sequence of events in a story

What is "plot"?

200

document that helped form our Constitution

What is the "Mayflower Compact"?

200

Anne Bradstreet was the first American _______.

What is poet?

200

Analogy that Edwards uses to explain how easy it is for God to send people to hell at the beginning of the sermon...

What is "stepping on a worm"

200

Author of The Crucible

Arthur Miller

300

The character that opposes the main character

What is the "antagonist"?

300

William Bradford's journal

What is Of Plymouth Plantation?

300

In "Huswifery" the author compares the Christian life to __________.

What is "a spinning wheel?"

300

This word means to regard with disgust or hatred

What is "abhore"?

300

Biblical allusion in The Crucible compares Reverend Hale to this man in the Bible

What is Pontius Pilate?

400

How the problem or difficulty is solved

What is "resolution"?

400

Number of parts of the treaty between the Indians and Pilgrims

What is 6?

400

Anne Bradstreet wrote To My Dear and Loving Husband in this type of poetry

What is rhyming couplets?

400

This is straining the bow of God's wrath...

What is "Justice"?

400

The name of a period of time where our government went after people for communism

What is McCarthyism?

500

The term for an Indian chief

What is a Sachem?

500

Year the Pilgrims came to America

What is 1620?

500

Literary element that was used in the last two lines of To My Dear and Loving Husband

What is alliteration?

500

These two verses are what Jonathan Edwards bases his sermon on.

What are Duet 32:35 and Psalm 7:11?

500

Term for when Proctor couldn't remember the commandment of adultery

What is irony?