Vocab 1Vocab 2The PlayLit TermsPotpurri

Question This word would describe the sound a feather makes when it hits a pile of cotton.

Answer 1 – 10 What is imperceptible?

Question If someone asked Mrs. Stockwell if she likes Disney, her response would be an NO.

Answer 1 – 20 What is adamant?

Question This would describe the tone a husband might use when telling his wife, “ Yes, those jeans DO make your butt look big.”

Answer 1 – 30 What is callous?

Question After insulting his wife, the husband may make a trip to the jewelry store in an effort to the situation.

Answer 1 – 40 What is ameliorate?

Question This word describes a society who is isolated and makes all of its own decisions independently.

Answer 1 – 50 What is autocratic?

Question This word might be used to describe the tone a husband would use to say, “Honey, I’m sorry that I said those jeans make your butt look big.”

Answer 2 – 10 What is conceding?

Question This word is an apt synonym for “catastrophe”.

Answer 2 – 20 What is calamity?

Question The fact that she was able to fool an entire town is proof that Abigail has lots of this; a synonym for “cleverness”.

Answer 2 – 30 What is guile?

Question This is the way a student might behave if a teacher began questioning them about whether they cheated on a test.

Answer 2 – 40 What is evasive?

Question “Insolence” and “impudence” are synonyms for this word

Answer 2 – 50 What is effrontery?

Question These two female characters serve as the strongest example of foils in the play.

Answer 3 – 10 Who are Elizabeth Proctor and Abigail Williams?

Question Miller fabricated this element of the plot that was not an actual event in the real Salem witch trials.

Answer 3 – 20 What is the relationship between Proctor and Abigail?

Question Because he changes his beliefs about witchcraft drastically, Hale’s character could be described as…

Answer 3 – 30 What is dynamic?

Question Because he remains selfish and paranoid throughout the play, Parris’ character could be described as…

Answer 3 – 40 Flat, or static

Question When Elizabeth lies for the first time at the very moment when her and John’s fates hinge on her honesty, this is a powerful example of this literary device at work.

Answer 3 – 50 What is situational irony?

Question The point on the plot diagram where characters and events are introduced.

Answer 4 – 10 What is the exposition?

Question Which character in The Crucible best fits the definition of antagonist?

Answer 4 – 20 Who is Abigail Williams?

Question Term used to describe two characters whose opposite traits are intended to highlight one character’s virtues

Answer 4 – 30 What are foils?

Question The point of highest emotional intensity within a story

Answer 4 – 40 What is the climax?

Question Term used to describe an extended speech given by a character alone onstage.

Answer 4 – 50 What is a soliloquy?

Question Which device was demonstrated when John forgot the one commandment he was guilty of breaking, and Hale was unaware of his sin?

Answer 5 – 10 What is dramatic irony?

Question Miller was accused of associating with this political party, and was eventually blacklisted for refusing to “name names”.

Answer 5 – 20 What is the Communist Party?

Question In The Crucible, Miller warns against the dangers of this government system, in which religious doctrine and legal code are one and the same.

Answer 5 – 30 What is a theocracy?

Question Miller wrote The Crucible to compare Salem with this 1950’s anti-communist hysteria

Answer 5 – 40 What is the Red Scare?

Question A container used to heat metals at high temperatures for the purpose of drawing out impurities.

Answer 5 – 50 What is a crucible?