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ELA 11 Midterm - Study Guide

Memoir

  • What is it? An emotionally driven nonfiction narrative from the perspective of the writer.
  • Tone- Feeling/attitude conveyed by the way the writer sounds.
  • Mood- How we are made to feel as the reader.
  • Flashback- powerful transition back to a time within the context of the memoir to add extra context to the memoir
  • Author’s Purpose- motive for writing the memoir, may it be to reminisce or to share a lesson
  • Showing not telling- showing is when you set the scene for the dramatic effect of the memoir rather than just telling the story with no emotion
  • Dialogue - verbal wording/ conversation between people within the context of the story
  • Hook techniques
  1. Start with a question
  2. Ask a rhetorical question
  3. Use dialogue
  4. Create a scene/image
  5. Make a startling statement
  6. Use a repeated weird/phrase
  7. Start in the middle of the story

Vocabulary

  • Defamation- trick/rumor against someones position.
  • Abomination- disastrous event
  • Defile- to take away somethings purity
  • Dissemble- behave unnaturally or affectedly
  • Ordinance- local law
  • Inert- stop/hold in motion, unable to move
  • Perpetuate- to cause/continue/prevail
  • Persecute- to hold someone to foul treatment and make them live under bad circumstances
  • Repression- Holding bak or holding down of something
  • Somber- melancholy, sad
  • Reprimand
  • Friction- confliction, the moving between two bodies, surface resistance
  • Conviction- to declare as guilty
  • Falter- to stutter/ hesitate
  • Solemn-dignified and somber in manner
  • Pallor- to be pale in an unhealth looking sense
  • Perplexed- hard, complex, difficult
  • Compact- packed in, tight
  • Indignant- upset, angered
  • Lechery- deep indulgence in sex
  • Crucible- Search of trial, usually caused by turmoil.
  • Scorn- To be openly disrespectful.
  • Befuddle- To confuse/decieve
  • Prodigious- Huge (either philosophically or physically.)
  • Effrontery- to be rude with no right to be so
  • Immaculate- excellent, amazing
  • Probity- dedicated to strong moral principles.
  • Callous- thickened/emotianlly hardend
  • Perjury- lying under oath
  • Guile- To be sly or slick
  • Denounce- to call out, step something down
  • Contention- To compete for a prize.
  • Gaunt- to be skinny-extremley thin from sickness
  • Strive- Go for, work at
  • Reprieve- To put off punishment or conviction
  • Retaliation- action taken for rejoice
  • Belie to be contridicted with.
  • Cleave- to cut open, slit, or split with a tool
  • Prevail- to exceed in quantity or power in some state
  • Calamity- disastrous event
  • Indictment- To be accused of doing something wrong

Informational Text

  • What is it? Text about something truthful to educate reader on a specific topic

  • * Purpose- to inform, persuade, give example, and ultimately educate

  • Literary Non-Fiction- informative text written in a form of creative literature like a story

  • Expository Text- non-fiction texts that give facts and information about a topic

  • Procedural writing- any text that explains how to complete a task or reach a goal/ very much based on process

  • Text features

    • Written,Table of contents, Appendix, Page Numbers, Glossary, Index, Headings or subheadings, Fonts/bold/italics/underline/color/highlight, Numbers (formulas), Excerpts (Primary Sources), Footnotes

    • Visual

    • Pictures/ illustrations

    • Charts/ graphs/ diagrams

    • Maps

    • Timelines

  • Organization Introductions (forward) -Problem and Solution Body paragraphs Poetry Argument/ persuasive Sequence of events Describe category Claim/evidence/reasoning Compare/contrast Pros/cons Cause and effect

Drama

  • Definition- A drama tells a story, usually of human conflict, through dialogue and action.
  • Purpose- to excite and entertain, provoke emotion, and provide a visual or aural experience
  • Features
    • Dialogue
    • Stage Directions
      • What is included in stage directions?- setting, lighting, movement of characters/ props,inotation of dialoge, and costumes
      • * How are they formatted?- usually in italics and [square brackets] in placement and context within the text.
  • Types of Conflict
    • Self- persen v. themselves
    • Person- person v. person
    • Nature- person v. nature/
    • Society- person v. society
  • Plot Structure
    • Exposition- creates tone, introduces setting n some characters, gives bacground
    • Rising Action- also known as compliction, sets action in motion, gives states most conflict
    • Climax- conflict has risen to highest point
    • Falling Action- stresses the activity of the forces, conflicts, and contridictions
    • Denouement/ Resolution- the end result of conflicts (usually when all truths have come out.)
  • Flashback- powerful transition back to a time within the context of the story to add extra context to the stoy
  • Sololiques- an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.

The Crucible

  • McCarthyism- Campaign strongly against communists (1950-54).
  • Red Scare- A time in history when fear of communism spread widely
  • Hysteria- Exaggerated or uncontrollable emotion or excitement/ disorder with neurological symptoms like uncontrollable emotion/ excitement.
  • Allegory- a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning
  • Satire- the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose someone

Act I

  1. Where and when is the play set?  The city of Salem Massachusetts in the early 1800s

  2. What does Abigail confess to Reverend Parris? Dancing

  3. What is wrong with Betty Parris? She's been possessed

  4. For whom does Abigail work? Whose niece is she? She is reverend Paris’s niece and was a servant for the proctors.

  5. For whom does Mercy Lewis work? The Putnam family

  6. For whom does Mary Warren work? The proctors

  7. How do Rev. Parris' parishioners feel about him? They fear him because of his power.

  8. What is John Proctor's attitude toward Parris? reduce and intolerant/impatient

  9. What were the girls doing in the woods with Tituba? Dancing naked around a fire and stew

  10. Thus far, which people feel that witchcraft exists and which do not? Rebecca nurse does not

  11. What does it mean when Betty can't stand to hear the Lord's name? She is possessed

  12. Who is John Hale? Why has he come to the Parris home? John Hale is a minister, who has come to examine Betty and Salem as a whole to look for the devil

  13. What is the conflict between Putnam and Proctor about? land for wood

  14. What does Mrs. Putnam believe caused the death of her seven children? Witchcraft

  15. What are Parris' feelings toward his congregation?

  16. Why do Tituba and the girls call out names at the end of this act? To prevent further punishment and victimize themselves.

What does Tituba confess and why? Tituba confesses to witchcraft to prevent hanging.

  1. Why did Mrs. Putnam send her daughter, Ruth, to see Tituba? To conjure the spirits of her dead kids.

  2. Why would the Devil want Rev. Parris' daughter? she represents a vulnerable target for his malevolent influence

  3. What does Giles Corey say disturbs him about his wife? How is Corey described? The fact that she reads books concerns him.

  4. According to Miller, what caused the witch-hunts? How does he describe the witch-hunts? a preserve of manifestation of the panic which set among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom

Act II

  1. What is the setting of this act? Inside the proctors home

  2. What does Elizabeth want John to do?

  3. Why has John been trying so hard to please his wife these last seven months? He feels guilty for his lechery

  4. Why does Mary Warren say that she had to be in Salem all day? She was an official of the court

  5. What does Mary bring to Elizabeth? A doll/poppet

  6. Why does Elizabeth want John to go see Abigail? So he can tell her off

  7. Why is Rev. Hale going from house to house? He wants to speak to everyone who is thought to have connection to witchcraft

  8. Why does John tell Hale that he would testify that Abigail was not really involved with witchcraft? Because she came in impaled

  9. With what has Rebecca Nurse been charged? Murder of children

  10. With what has Martha Corey been charged? Witchcraft by book reading.

  11. With what does Cheever charge Elizabeth? Attempted murder of abigail

  12. What does Elizabeth say that makes them take her away? Abigail should be ripped from the world.

  13. Why will Elizabeth not believe in witches? Because they believe she could be one and she knows she isn't one. Can’t serve the devil if you already do good deeds.

  14. Since the aged Goody Good has been declared pregnant, who is being implicated as the father? The devil.

  15. Why has Goody Osburn been convicted? They thought she said a spell under her breath to cause sickness to a woman who turned her away while she was in need.

  16. At this point, who does Rev. Hale believe is telling the truth- the Proctors or the court? The court

  17. What is the irony in the fact that John Proctor misses the adultery commandment? He aldultured with abigail

  18. How does Elizabeth explain that her name has been called out in court? Abigail called my name so she could take my place.

  19. What has Abigail suffered from that very night? What was her plan? She suffered from impalement. She planned to kill off Elizabeth so she could have john.

  20. At the end of this act, what does John want Mary Warren to do? Testify the truth of the poppet.

Act III

  1. Where does this act take place? In the court

  2. Why is Giles Corey appearing in court? His wife had been convicted of witchcraft

  3. How do you see Rev. Hale beginning to change? He starting to see the light in some situations and good in some people, taking up for giles and goody nurse to danforth

  4. Describe Danforth as a judge. Stubborn, and analytic

  5. Why do Giles and John bring depositions to court?

  6. What does the judge reveal about Elizabeth Proctor? Why doesn't John drop his charges against Mary Warren when told of this news? lizzy is charged to hanging and is also pregnaught Because Mary is telling the truth and the truth could save many people's lives including johns wife

  7. Who does Rev. Parris support? He and the girls of the court

  8. Why does Giles Corey refuse to reveal the names of the witnesses against Putnam? Because it would save lives and has promised not too

  9. For what reason is Giles Corey put in jail? refusing to reveal the name of his informant to the court.

  10. What conditions do Hathorne and Proctor agree on regarding Elizabeth's testimony?  May she hang after the baby is born not before

  11. Why does Elizabeth deny her husband's lechery with Abigail? She is afraid he will be hung

  12. How does Elizabeth find out the truth about her husband? He tells her to tell the truth because he already did

  13. How does Abigail force Mary Warren to take up the deception and the lying in court? She pretends mary is a scary ird and starts to put on an act

  14. What falsehood does Mary Warren tell, under force, about John Proctor? he came to her in the form of the Devil and frightened her into making up her story that Abigail and the girls were lying all along.

  15. Who quits the court? What change has this man gone through since the beginning of the trials? Hale quits the court, he eventually realizes that the whole hunt is a scheme of lies and negative vengence.

  16. What motivates John Proctor to claim that God is dead and vengeance is walking in Salem? All the turmoil and inconsideration that was going on by judges

  17. As a result of the girls' behavior, what does Mary accuse of Proctor? Consorting with the devil

  18. What does Proctor say when Danforth asks him if he has "trafficked with the devil"? “God is dead”

Act IV

  1. What is the setting of this act? A jail cell in salem.

  2. What are Sarah Good and Tituba planning to do? Fly to Barbados with the devil

  3. Who has come back to plead with the prisoners to confess and save their lives? Reverend hale

  4. What does Rev. Parris say has happened to Abigail and Mercy Lewis? Theyve disappeared

  5. According to Parris, what has been happening in Andover? rejected the witch trial trend and threw out the court, which has sparked the beginnings of a rebellion in Salem

  6. According to Parris, why must Danforth and Hathorne give Hale more time with the prisoners? To verify their wrong doings

  7. According to Hale, why has he come back? to speak with and pray for those who are in sentenced to hang for witchcraft

  8. Why do they call Elizabeth to the cell? They want her to convince john to confess

  9. How has Giles Corey died? Compression of stones.

  10. Why has he chosen to die this way? How has he saved his farm for his children? He chose to die because he would neither confirm nor deny his witchcraft accusation. He saved his farm for his children by selling it at an auction.

  11. How does Elizabeth respond when John tells her that he might confess? Elizabeth does not persuade John Proctor to confess, instead she tells him that she will not judge him either way.

  12. What is John's reasoning for deciding to confess? He thinks the lives of innocent people are much more important then his own well being

  13. What does John say when they want him to associate other people with the Devil? He saw no one with the devil.

  14. Why is John hesitant about signing the paper? He knows the confession is a lie, and he dosnt want to ruin his name in the eyes of those who think he is a good

  15. Why does he take the paper back and rip it up? Because they werent letting it up

  16. Why does Elizabeth say that she will not try to stop John from going to the gallows? She is not his judge, if he wants his name he shall have it. She understands his feelings

17.Why are orphans wandering from house to house and abandoned cows wandering in the roads? Their masters/parents were in jail

  1. How does Rev. Hale feel about what he is asking these Christians to do? He feels disgusted with himself becuse he is asking people to lie knowing of the innocence

  2. What does Rebecca's refusal to confess say about her character? she is a strong and moral person who is willing to give her life to stand on the side of truth.

General questions

  1. What is a crucible?- Search of trial, usually caused by turmoil.

  2. What is the significance of the title? The salem witch trials was a series of search for trial of those accused of witchcraft. Making it a “crucible”.

  3. Are the girls insane? If not, why do they act as they do?

*4. What is the major conflict in the play? Give both the kind of conflict and the specific Conflict.

  1. What is the theme of The Crucible? trying to preserve one's reputation can end up harming others.sometimes in extreme cases.

  2. Could a similar situation happen today (reputations ruined by innuendo)? Why or why not? Absolutely. With the use of propaganda and uprising extreme opinions popping up in legal law of our so called “free” country, as well as our extremely corrupt offices, i can definitly see pettiness uprising and bringing ends to carreers and lives. Say if the army weekend, abortion laws persist, ect. Theres so much hate, confusion, and projection within the world right now. That was the basis then, and its definitely a factor now.