Act 1 & Act 2 Literary Devices- the Crucible

What is this an example of?
Parris: “Child. Sit you down.”

The order of the noun and the adjective in the sentence is exchanged; the inversion of the usual order of words or clauses

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Procter: “The road past my house is a pilgrimage to Salem all morning. The town’s mumbling witchcraft.

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Abigail:”…I cannot sleep for dreamin’; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I’d find you comin’ through some door…”

The repetition of a word or words in successive clauses in such a way that the second clause starts with the same word which marks the end of the previous clause

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Proctor: “…We never touched Abby.

”
Abigail: “Aye, but we did.”
Proctor: “Aye, but we did not.”

words or phrases are repeated in quick succession after each other for emphasis

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Rebecca: “…There is prodigious danger in the seeking of loose spirits.

I fear it, I fear it.”

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Paris: “…I do not wish to be put out like the cat whenever some majority feels the whim.”

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Paris: “What are we Quakers? We are not Quakers here yet, Mr. Proctor. And you tell that to your followers!”

The writer first poses a question and then answers it immediately

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Giles: “…I never thought you had so much iron in you.

”

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Paris: “…My, they’re heavy! (Referring to books)
Hale: “They must be; they are weighted with authority.”

A literary device that can be defined as a phrase or a figure of speech that might have multiple senses, interpretations, or two different meanings or that could be understood in two different ways

A play on words in which a humorous effect is produced by using a word that suggests two or more meanings or by exploiting similar sounding words having different meanings

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Parris: “Why Rebecca, we may open up the boil of all our troubles today!”

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Giles: “That’s deep, Mr. Parris, deep, deep!

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Proctor: “…Lilacs have a purple smell.”

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Proctor: “How may that mouse frighten you, Elizabeth? You-“

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Elizabeth: “…she raises her head up her chin like the daughter of a prince…”

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Elizabeth: “…where she walks the crowd will part like the sea for Israel.”

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Elizabeth: “I would go to Salem now, John–let you go tonight.”

involves creating a fracture of sorts within a sentence where the two separate parts are distinguishable from one another yet intrinsically linked to one another. The purpose of using a caesura is to create a dramatic pause, which has a strong impact.

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Elizabeth: “I see what I see John.”

a rhetorical term meaning repetition of a word or phrase with one or two intervening words.

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Proctor: “…your justice would freeze beer!”

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Mary Warren: “I am sick, I am sick, Mr. Proctor. Pray, pray, hurt me not.”

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Proctor: “…Were I stone I would have cracked for the shame this seventh month!”

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Proctor: “I will curse her hotter than the oldest cider in hell.”

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Hale: “…there is a certain softness in your record, sir, a softness.

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Proctor: “…Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.”
Hale: “You have said that twice sir.”
Proctor: “Aye.”
Elizabeth: “Adultery, John.”