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The Crucible: Act IV Analysis Terms/Vocabulary = AmLC
The Crucible Act IV: theme, extended metaphor, agape, conciliatory, beguiled, floundering, retaliation, adamant, cleave, sibilance, tantalized, purged, raise, rise
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| theme | central idea or insight into life that a writer strives to convey in a work of literature |
| extended metaphor | comparison that is developed throughout the course of a literary work |
| comparison of Miller's 17th C. Salem witch hunt imagery to events of America's McCarthy Senate Hearings | extended metaphor |
| agape (adj.) | wide open |
| conciliatory (adj.) | tending to soothe anger |
| beguiled (v.) | trick |
| floundering (n.) | awkward, struggling |
| retaliation (n.) | act of returning an injury or wrong |
| adamant (adj.) | firm; unyielding |
| cleave (v.) | adhere; cling |
| sibilance (n.) | hissing sound |
| tantalized (adj.) | tormented; frustrated |
| purged (v.) | cleansed |
| raise and rise | commonly confused words |
| raise (v.) | to life up (takes a direct object) |
| rise (v.) | to go up or get up (doesn't take a direct object) |
| applying themes to contemporary events | a parallel between the events in Salem, as Miller depicts them, and ongoing events in Congress at the time Miller wrote the play |
| Hysteria: suspends the rules of daily life and allows the acting out of every dark desire and hateful urge under the cover of righteousness | one theme in The Crucible |
| Reputation: “I have given you my soul; leave me my name!” Proctor cries to Danforth in Act IV. By refusing to relinquish his name, he redeems himself for his earlier failure and dies with integrity. | one theme in The Crucible |
| Intolerance: As Danforth says in Act III, “a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it.” Moral laws and state laws are one and the same. | one theme in The Crucible |
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English Language Institute |
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