Drama Terms
Terms/ Characters
Characters Crucible 1 Crucible 2
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Question–Drama Terms–10
The substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression
for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt
Answer–Drama Terms–10
What is a euphemism?
Question–Drama Terms–20
A minor character who contrasts who contrasts a main character and who
highlights traits of the main character
Answer–Drama Terms–20
What is a foil?
Question–Drama Terms–30
A long speech in a play or other literary work
Answer–Drama Terms–30
What is a monologue?
Question–Drama Terms–40
A prelude or introduction to a musical work
Answer–Drama Terms–40
What is an overture?
Question–Drama Terms–50
The writer of a play
Answer–Drama Terms–50
What is a playwright?
Question–Drama Terms–10
A long speech b a character who is alone on the stage
that reveals the private thoughts of a character
Answer–Drama Terms–10
What is a soliloquy?
Question–Drama Terms–20
Comments written to help actors, directors, and reader visualize what is happening
onstage
Answer–Drama Terms–20
What are stage directions?
Question–Characters–30
Salem’s minister; he is concerned with his own well
being
Answer–Characters–30
Who is Rev. Samuel Parris?
Question–Characters–40
One of the antagonists; the main accuser in the trials
Answer–Characters–40
Who is Abigail Williams?
Question–Characters–50
A wealthy landowner who uses the trials to gain more
land
Answer–Characters–50
Who is Thomas Putnam?
Question–Characters–10
Thinks witchcraft caused seven of her eight children
to die
Answer–Characters–10
Who is Ann Putnam?
Question–Characters–20
The protagonist; he sees himself as the cause of the
troubles in Salem
Answer–Characters–20
Who is John Proctor?
Question–Characters–30
A stubborn old man who knows the law well
Answer–Characters–30
Who is Giles Corey?
Question–Characters–40
A respected old woman who becomes a victim of the
hysteria
Answer–Characters–40
Who is Rebecca Nurse?
Question–Characters–50
An expert in witchcraft; he loses his faith when he sees
true evil
Answer–Characters–50
Who is Rev. Hale?
Question–Crucible 1–10
Parris focuses too much on hellfire and damnation
Answer–Crucible 1–10
What are Proctor’s thoughts on Parris and his sermons?
Question–Crucible 1–20
Giles Corey’s comments that foreshadow bad things for
him later in the play
Answer–Crucible 1–20
What is he asks Hale about his wife’s strange reading
habits?
Question–Crucible 1–30
The irony of Hale’s views on witchcraft and demonic
possession
Answer–Crucible 1–30
What is he believes all supernatural events can be understood and written in
books?
Question–Crucible 1–40
The reason Miller calls Act I an overture
Answer–Crucible 1–40
What is it introduces the major characters and themes of the play?
Question–Crucible 1–50
The way the stage directions in Act 2 help establish the relationship between John
and Elizabeth
Answer–Crucible 1–50
What is they help establish that John will not always be
truthful with Elizabeth?
Question–Crucible 2–10
The significance of Proctor’s forgetfulness when being questioned by Hale about
his faith
Answer–Crucible 2–10
What is he cannot remember the one
commandment he broke?
Question–Crucible 2–20
The significance of the setting of Act III
Answer–Crucible 2–20
What is the meeting house vestry room symbolizes the connection between church
and state?
Question–Crucible 2–30
The reason Elizabeth testifies the way she does in
court
Answer–Crucible 2–30
What is she lies to protect John’s reputation, fearing
that he will be arrested for adultery?
Question–Crucible 2–40
The reason Rev. Hale returns in Act 4?
Answer–Crucible 2–40
What is he has come to persuade condemned
witches to confess?
Question–Crucible 2–50
John Proctor’s final decision in the play
Answer–Crucible 2–50
What is he decides to hang because he does not want
his reputation ruined with a lie?