Drama Terms

Terms/ Characters

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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?