| A | B |
| Faith | Brown's wife's name |
| Forest | Mental Confusion |
| Pink Ribbons | Not quite pure, not quite corrupt |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Finds the Puritan lifestyle hypocrytical |
| The man in the woods | The devil |
| Fork in the road | Symbol of the path he will take |
| Ceremony in the forest | Black Mass |
| Symbol | One thing which represents something more than itself |
| Protagonist | Main Character |
| Conflict | Internal/External |
| Conventional Symbol | Means the same thing everywhere |
| Antagonist | Opposes the main character |
| Duality of Man | Major motif found in "Young Goodman Brown" |
| "Faith kept me back a while" | Quote from Brown |
| The serpentine staff | A clue that the man in the forest was the devil |
| Figurative Language | Simile, Metaphor, Personification |
| Judge Hathorne | Relative of Hawthorne, sentenced girls to be hung during Salem witch trials |
| Literal reading | The meaning of the words on the page |
| Figurative reading | The implied meaning, helped through symbolism |
| Present at the Black Mass | All typed of people together, good and bad |