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English 3rd Hour
Semester Exam
173
English
11th Grade
03/11/2010

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Cryptic (adj)
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intended to be obscure or mysterious, as in a code
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crux (n)
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the essential or vital point in a paper or argument
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depreciate (v)
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to lessen in value or price
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somnambulism (n)
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the act of walking during sleep
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efficient (adj)
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adequate in performance, with a minimum of waste or effort
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landlubber (n)
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an inexperienced person on a ship
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surpass (v)
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to go beyond the limits of; to be greater than
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aghast (adj)
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appalled; struck with amazement
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collusion (n)
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a secret aggrement between two or more people for an illeal purpose
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epicenter (n)
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the part of the earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
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intermitten
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broken in progression; starting and stopping repeatedly; inconsistent
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magnitude
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greatness or extent of bulk, size, sound, etc
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somatic
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of the body; realted to physical issues, not other characteristics
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belligerant
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hostile; boisterous; having the characteristics of one who wants to arge
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rouge
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a dishonest or unprincipled person; a person, animal, or thing acting in isolation or on its own
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inadvertent
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not done on purpose; done by oversight or accident; unplanned
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carnage
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extensive killing, slaughter, or devestation
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quadruple
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consisting of 4 parts; involving 4 groups of some kind
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remunerate
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to pay or reward for services rendered
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juncture
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a ceertain time or place where things join; a crisis
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serpentine (adj)
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twisting and curving
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perspicacious (adj)
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having or showing great insight
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pestilential (adj)
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troublesome; bothersome; pernicious
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insolvent (adj)
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unable to pay one's debt
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insuperable (adj)
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unable to be overcome
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deride (v)
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to laugh at scornfully; to treat with scorn
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derelict (n)
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a person who is abandoned by society or who does not fit into a normal socail background
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prototype (n)
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a first or original example of something from which others have been or will be developed; a trail mode
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cagey (adj)
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cautious about giving information; secretive
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legitimize (adj)
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to make acceptable
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malevolent
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wishing harm to others
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infeasible
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not able to be done easily; not pratical
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infelicitous
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unfortunate; inappropriate
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humdinger
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a remarkable person or thing
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inscrutable
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baffling; impossible to understand or interpret
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syncronize
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to occur or exsist at the same time
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bleak
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cold an cheerless; uncompromising
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inestimable
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too great, intense, or precious to be counted or estimated
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scintillating
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sparkling; giving off sparks; brilliant; amazing
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sycophant
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a person who trys to win people's favor by flattering them
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finagle
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to obtain or arrange for something in a dishonest or immoral way
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encumber
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to be a burden to; to hamper
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unsavory
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morally unpleasent or disgusting; disagreeable to taste or smell
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circumvent
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to evade; to find a way around
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apportion
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to divide into shares; to allot
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entrench
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to esatblish firmly
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entourage
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the people accompanying an important person
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knotty
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puzzling; full of problems or difficulties
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rationale
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the logical basis or reason for something
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monopolize
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to take exclusive control or use of
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subliminal (adj)
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below the threshold of consciousness
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subpoena (n)
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an order commanding a person to appear in a court of law
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listless (adj)
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without energy or vutality; showing no enthusiasm
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gravitate (v)
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to move or be attracted toward
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graze (v)
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to touch or scarpe lightly
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panacea (n)
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a remedy for all kinds of diseases or torubles
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pelf (n)
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money; wealth; possessions
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indigent (adj)
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needy; impoverished
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gaudy (adj)
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showy or bright in a tastless or outrageous way
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deify (v)
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to make a go of; to treat as a god
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genteel (adj)
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well bread; polite
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hibernal (adj)
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related to winter; wintry
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austral (adj)
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of or from the south; southern
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uncompromising (adj)
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not seeking to reach an agreement; stubborn; inflexible
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semantic (adj)
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related to changes and diffrencse in word usage
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authenticate (v)
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to assure as genuine; to verify or prove valid
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fortuitous (adj)
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happening by chance
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pillage (n)
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a taking by force; the things so takeb
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halycon (adj)
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happy; peacful; extrmely pleasent
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arcane (adj)
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secret; hidden
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bilingual (adj)
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able to speak 2 languages
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charlatan (n)
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a person who falsey claims to be an expert, especially in the field of medicine
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disingenuous (adj)
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insincere; not frank
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mortality (n)
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being mortal; subject to death
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nettle (v)
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to irritate, provoke, or annoy
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bibliophile (n)
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someone who loves books or reading
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neutralize (v)
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to make ineffective by means of an oppisite force or effect
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odious (adj)
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hateful; detestable
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palindrome (n)
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a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward
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pallid (adj)
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pale, especially from illness
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At the end of the play, seems to be character MOST intent on going through with the executions
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Danforth
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had good fortune in having healthy children and grandchildren
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Rebecca Nurse
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is called in from Beverly to see if there are any witches in Salem
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Revrend Hale
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in court, she accused John Proctor of dealing with the devil after Abigail turned on her
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Mary Warren
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is "sick" at the beginning of the play
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Betty Parris
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lied about why Abigail was put out of the house
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Elizabeth Proctor
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wanted to get Elizabeth out of the way
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Abigail
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is "pressed" to death
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Giles Corey
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tries to convince Elizabeth to tell her husband to lie and say he is a witch to save his life
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Revrand Hale
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is from Barbados
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Tituba
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is the leader of the congragtion in Salem
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Revrand parris
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said she saw a "yellow bird"
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Abigail Williams
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takes Abigail's place in the procctor's home
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Mary Warren
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Partially blames herself ofr her husband's affair
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Elizabeth Proctor
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is angered when someone calls her a child
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Abigail Williams
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had a very bad fortune in having healthy children & grand children
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Ann Putman
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discovered the girls dancing in the forest
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Reverand Parris
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said that he had made many apperances in front of the court
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Giles Corey
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could probably be considered the "main character" or "proagonist" in the play
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John Proctor
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is affraid of loosing his position because of Betty's actions
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Reverand Parris
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"You are alone with her?"
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Elizabeth Proctor
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"In the book of record that Mr.PArris keeps, I note that you are rarley in the church on Sabbath Day."
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Reverand Hale
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"Where is my wood? My contract provides I be supplied with all my firewood."
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Reverend PArris
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"I came to think he fancied her. And so one night I lost my wits, I think, and put her out on the highroad."
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Elizabeth Proctor
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"I think you must go to Salem, John. I think so. You must tell them it is fraud."
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Elizabeth PRoctor
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"I must tell you, sir, I will be gone every day now. I am amazed you do not see the weighty work we do."
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Mary Warren
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"Oh, please, MAry! Don't come down.... MAry, please don't hurt me."
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Abigail Williams
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Do you ever tell me you've never looked up at my window?"
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Abigail Williams
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"Only be sure of this, for I know it now: Whatevr you will do, it is a good man does it."
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Elizabeth Proctor
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"No,no,sir, I dont truck with no Deil!... I love me Betty."
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Tituba
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"I never kept no poppets, not since I were a girl."
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Elizabth Proctor
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"....it may well be that God damns a liar less than he that throws his life away for pride."
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Reverand Hale
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"Tituba, the devil is out and preying o her like a beast upon the flesh of the pure lamb. God will bless you for your help."
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Reverand Hale
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"Yoou have all witnessed it; what more is needed?... God does not need my name nailed upon the church."
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John Proctor
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"Now look you.All of you.We dnaced.and Tituba conjured Ruth Putman's dead sisters. And athat is all. And mark this. Let either of you breathe a wword, or the edge of a word, about the other things, anf I will come to you in the balck of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it."
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Abigail Williams
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"I have given yyou my soul; leave me my name."
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John Proctor
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"it were only sport in the beginnin, sir, but then the whole wolrd cred spirits, spirits, and I-I promise you, Mr.Danforth, I only thouht I saw them but I did not."
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Mary Warren
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:Here is all the invisible woorld, caught, defined, and calculated... we shall find him out if he has come amoung us, and I mean tocrush him utterly if he has shown his face!"
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Reerand Hale
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"Mr.Procor. When the Devil came to you, did you see Rebecca Nurse in his company?"
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Danforth
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"I have eleven children, and I am 26 time a grabdma."
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Rebecca Nurse
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"I have 3 children- how my I teach them to walk like men in the world, amd I sold my friends?"
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John Proctor
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"You forget nothin' and forgive nothin.Learn charity, women. I have gone tiptoe in this house all seven months since she is gone."
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John Proctor
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:I will cut off my hand before I'll ever reach for you again. Wipe it out of mind. We never touched."
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John Proctor
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"I have known her sir, I have known her."
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John Proctor
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Why did Arthur Miller write this play?
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To comment on the red scare
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Who was Joseph McCarthy?
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leader of the red scare
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What was the "Cold War?"
Definition
battle in 1950's-1980's betwen U.S. & Russia to see who will be the super power
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What was the "Red Scare?"
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fear of communists
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Before what committe was Miller asked to tstify?
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House unAmerican activites committee
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What is "Lechery?"
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cheating
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Whatis "perjury?"
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lying in court
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in what year is the play set?
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1692
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In what town os the play set?
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Salem
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What is meant by the term "mass hysteria?"
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people go crazy when a rumor is spread
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What does the term "whitch hunt" meant today?
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you go after a group f peoplefor no reason beause of a stereotype
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Why did Elizabeth Proctor deny her husband's affair in court?
Definition
She didnt know he told the truth and tried to protect his rep
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What was the result of this decision by Elizabeth Proctor to tell the truth?
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Perjur & killed
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alliteration
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repitition of beggining consanat sounds
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assonance
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repition of vowel sounds
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foot
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a stressed syllabol & all ot the slack symbols that go with it
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iamb (u/)
Definition
the most common foot in enlish language
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trochee (/u)
Definition
most names
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end ryhme
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ryhme of the terminal syllabols
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internal ryhme
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rhyme that occurs in a single line of verse
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sight ryhme
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2 words forced to rhyme that dont
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ryhme scheme
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the pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem or song
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metaphor
Definition
an analogy between two objects or ideas
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simile
Definition
a figure of speech comparing two unlike things
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hyperbole
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a rhetorical device in which statements are exaggerated
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archetype
Definition
a very old pattern or theme that appers in literature across countries or time periods
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symbol
Definition
something such as an object, picture, written word, sound, or particular mark that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention
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myth
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an imaginary or fictitious thing or person
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meter
Definition
# of beats/feet per line
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sonnet
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1.14 lines
2.imabicpictametr
3.set rhyme scheme
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elision
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a crunching or subtractng of a syllabol to keep the beat steady
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sermon
Definition
an oration by a prophet or member of the clergy
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aphorism
Definition
a brief, cleverly worded statement tht make a wise observation about life
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The sky tree
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wife creates islands trying to get food for sick chief husband
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coyote finishes his work
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coyote creates the world
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here follow some verses
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ladies house burnt down
she thanks god
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sinners in the hand of an angry god
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a crazy puritan priest who believed evry1 was going to hell
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poor richards almanck
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auphorisms by benjamin frankiln
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love is not all
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love is not but it is all
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to my dear and loving husband
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crazy lady loves her husband
but god more
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Speech to the virginia convention
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telling the president we need to go to warvwith britian
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the crisis
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letters t encourage troops to keep fighting
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the raven
Definition
a crazy lonley giy lost his wife trips on opium then thinks his wife is a raven
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the devil and tom walker
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everybody has a price
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thanatopsis
Definition
a sight of death
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the cross of snow
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a sonnet about a guy whos wife died n everything reminds him of her
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self relience
Definition
emerson believes that each person has unique talents and pssions that can be discovered only on ones own
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life in the woods
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wanted nature to teach him life
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resistance to civil government
Definition
henery david thoreu wouldnt pay his taxes becuse he didnt believe in the war
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