Crucible

Question 1

Threat to power

Answer 1

“Ocean of salt tears” - Metaphor
“Hang 10 thousand” - hyperbole
“For now my ministry is at stake, my ministry and perhaps your cousins life” - syntax
“I will take you out and whip you to death tituba”

Question 2

Threat to Religion

Answer 2

“There is either obedience or the church will burn” - simile
“you will confess yourself or i will take you out and whip you to death” - hyperbole
“Theology is a fortress” - Hale
“Did you drink it? WHy are you concealing?”- repeated questions

Question 3

Reputation

Answer 3

“Let either of you breathe a word…bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you” - Imagery
“She is blackening my name in the village, she is a cold sniveling woman” - High modality
“How can I live without my name?” - Rheo Q
[Proctor tears the paper and crumples it weeping in fury] - Stage Directions

Question 4

Collective hysteria due to fear

Answer 4

“Where Abigail walks the crowd parts like the red sea” - simile
“The whole country’s talking witchcraft” - Hyperbole
“I saw Sarah Good! I saw Goody Osborne! I saw Bridget Bishop!” - Repeated exclamations
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Question 5

Individual Hysteria due to fear