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Crucible Rhetoric
Examples from the text for benchmark rhetoric
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11th Grade
11/16/2012

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Term
Metaphor
Definition

They believed, in short, that they held in their steady hands the candle that would light the world.

Exposition (Act I, pg 1236)

Term
Simile
Definition

She were swaying like a dumb beast over the fire!

Parris (Act I, pg 1239)

Term
Sarcasm
Definition

Oh, you're a great one for lookin', aren't you, Mary Warren?  What a grand peeping courage you have!

Mercy (Act I, pg 1244)

Term
Understatement
Definition

We were dancin' in the woods last night, and my uncle leaped in on us.  She took fright, is all.

Abigail (Act I, pg. 1245)

Term
Sarcasm
Definition

Has the court discovered a text in poppets now?

Elizabeth (Act II, pg. 1281)

Term
Sarcasm
Definition
"I have a crop to sow and lumber to drag home." He goes angrily to the door and turns to Corey with a smile. "What say you, Giles, let's find the party, He says there's a party. Proctor (Act I, pg. 1251)
Term
Understatement
Definition

Hale: "Abigail, what sort of dancing were you doing

with her in the forest?"

Abigail: "Why-common dancing is all."

(Act I, pg. 1258)

Term
Dramatic Irony
Definition

Now look you. All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam's dead sisters. And that is all. And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night...

Abigail (Act I, pg. 1244)

Term
Allusion/Simile
Definition

...and where she walks the crowd will part

like the sea for Israel.

Elizabeth (Act II, pg. 1269)

Term
Hyperbole
Definition

Laughing bitterly, "Oh, Elizabeth, your

justice would freeze beer!"

Proctor (Act II, pg. 1271)

Term
Simile
Definition

I will fall like an ocean on the court!

Fear nothing, Elizabeth.

Proctor (Act II, pg. 1285)

Term
Metaphor
Definition
We burn a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment. Danforth (Act III, pg. 1294)
Term
Hyperbole/Metaphor
Definition

This farm's a continent!

Proctor (Act II, pg. 1268)

Term
Theme
Definition
Fear overrides common sense.
Term
Theme
Definition
Those in authority do not always hold the most power.
Term
Hyperbole
Definition

There may also me a dragon with 5 legs in my house, but no one has every seen it!

Proctor (Act III, pg 1304)

Term
Sarcasm
Definition

Aye, now she is solemn and goes to hang people!

Giles, (Act III, pg 1304)

Term
Metaphor
Definition

I have made a bell of my honor!

Proctor (Act III, pg 1309)

Term
Dramatic Irony
Definition

"Elizabeth, tell the truth!" "She has spoken, Remove her!" "Elizabeth, I have confessed it!" "Oh, God!"

Proctor, Danforth, Elizabeth (Act III, pg 1311)

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