crucible

Question 1

hysteria q1

Answer 1

I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and i’ll bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you

imagery of dark night, threatening tone

Question 2

hysteria q2

Answer 2

Abigail brings the other girls into the court, and where she walks the crowd will part like the sea for Israel

simile, biblical allusion, heavenly/religious imagery

Question 3

hysteria q3

Answer 3

(their screaming subsides only mary warren’s is left. All watch her, struck, even horrified by this evident fit.)

stage imagery, auditory imagery

Question 4

abuse of power q1

Answer 4

a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between

high modality, antithesis between statements

Question 5

abuse of power q2

Answer 5

while I speak God’s law I will not crack its voice with whimpering

high modality, metaphor

Question 6

abuse of power q3

Answer 6

(a high barred window…in darkness but for the moonlight seeping through the bars)

setting of a jail, dichotomous light and dark imagery

Question 7

moral integrity q1

Answer 7

the magistrate sits in your heart that judges you

imagery, emotive symbolism

Question 8

moral integrity q2

Answer 8

let none be your judge. there be no higher judge under heaven than proctor is

hyperbole, high modality

Question 9

moral integrity q3

Answer 9

Because it is my name! … I have given you my soul; leave me my name!

within the denouement, motif and symbolism of one’s name, emotional exclaimation