Identify tone for each quote
and 12 literary device for all of the quotes.
“Spare me! You forget nothin’ and forgive nothin’.
Learn charity, woman. I have gone tiptoe in this
house all seven month since she is gone. I have
not moved from there to there without I think to
please you, and still an everlasting funeral
marches round your heart. I cannot speak but I
am doubted, every moment judged for lies, as
though I come into a court when I come into this
house!”
“Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my
life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not
worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live
without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my
name! “
“My wife will never die for me! I will bring your
guts into your mouth but that goodness will not
die for me!”
“I have made a bell of my honor! I have rung
the doom of my good name – you will believe
me, Mr. Danforth! My wife is innocent, except she
knew a whore when she saw one!”
“It does not escape me that this deposition may be devised to
blind us; it may well be that Mary Warren has been conquered by
Satan, who sends her here to distract our sacred purpose. If so, her
neck will break for it. But if she speak true, I bid you now drop your
guile and confess your pretense, for a quick confession will go
easier with you.”
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“In the proper place - where my beasts are bedded. On the
last night of my joy, some eight months past. She used to serve me
in my house, sir. He has to clamp his jaw to keep from weeping. A
man may think God sleeps, but God sees everything, I know it now.
I beg you, sir, I beg you - see her what she is. My wife, my dear
good wife, took this girl soon after, sir, and put her out on the
highroad. And being what she is, a lump of vanity, sir.”
“Excellency, it is a natural lie to tell; I beg you, stop
now before another is condemned! l may shut my
conscience to it no more - private vengeance is
working through this testimony! From the
beginning this man has struck me true. By my oath
to Heaven, I believe him now, and I pray you call
back his wife before we –“
1. One theme from The Crucible.
2. Why did proctor take back his confession?
3. How has Mr. Hale’s position changes on the
situation from act 1 to act 4?
4. What conflict had to be resolved in order for
Elizabeth to understand and accept proctors
choice to not sign the confession?
5. How does Rebecca Nurses opinion on the girls
indirectly characterize her?
6. What commandment did John forget and why
is that ironic?
1. What is the theme of “Winter Dreams”?
2. What is the theme from “Upon The Burning of
Our House”?
3. What is the most important element in the
setting of “Winter Dreams?”
4. What does Dexter’s Winter Dream about
beating T.A. Hendrix in Golf symbolize beyond
just winning?
5. What is the theme of the “Earth on the Turtle’s
Back”?
6. What is the theme of “Huswifery”?
7. Identify two literary devices and tone in the
following:
Make me, O Lord, thy Spinning Wheele compleat;
Thy Holy Worde my Distaff make for mee.
Make mine Affections thy Swift Flyers neate,
And make my Soule thy holy Spoole to bee.
My Conversation make to be thy Reele,
And reele the yarn thereon spun of thy Wheele.
7. Identify two literary devices and tone in the
following:
“But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One
hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled
by the manacles of segregation and the chains of
discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a
lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material
prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still
languished in the corners of American society and finds himself
an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to
dramatize a shameful condition.”
8. Identify two literary devices and tone in the
following:
The little girl who had done this was eleven--beautifully ugly as little girls
are apt to be who are destined after a few years to be inexpressibly
lovely and bring no end of misery to a great number of men. The spark,
however, was perceptible. There was a general ungodliness in the way
her lips twisted ,down at the corners when she smiled, and in the-Heaven help us!--in the almost passionate quality of her eyes. Vitality is
born early in such women. It was utterly in evidence now, shining
through her thin frame in a sort of glow.