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| the essential or vital point in a paper or argument |
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| the act of walking during sleep |
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| adequate in performance, with a minimum of waste or effort |
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| an inexperienced person on a ship |
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| a secret aggrement between two or more people for an illeal purpose |
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| the part of the earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake |
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| greatness or extent of bulk, size, sound, etc |
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| hostile; boisterous; having the characteristics of one who wants to arge |
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| a dishonest or unprincipled person; a person, animal, or thing acting in isolation or on its own |
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| not done on purpose; done by oversight or accident; unplanned |
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| extensive killing, slaughter, or devestation |
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| consisting of 4 parts; involving 4 groups of some kind |
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| to pay or reward for services rendered |
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| to laugh at scornfully; to treat with scorn |
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| a person who is abandoned by society or who does not fit into a normal socail background |
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| a first or original example of something from which others have been or will be developed; a trail mode |
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| cautious about giving information; secretive |
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| not able to be done easily; not pratical |
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| unfortunate; inappropriate |
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| a remarkable person or thing |
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| baffling; impossible to understand or interpret |
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| to occur or exsist at the same time |
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| cold an cheerless; uncompromising |
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| too great, intense, or precious to be counted or estimated |
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| sparkling; giving off sparks; brilliant; amazing |
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| a person who trys to win people's favor by flattering them |
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| to obtain or arrange for something in a dishonest or immoral way |
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| to be a burden to; to hamper |
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| morally unpleasent or disgusting; disagreeable to taste or smell |
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| to evade; to find a way around |
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| to divide into shares; to allot |
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| the people accompanying an important person |
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| puzzling; full of problems or difficulties |
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| the logical basis or reason for something |
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| to take exclusive control or use of |
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| below the threshold of consciousness |
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| an order commanding a person to appear in a court of law |
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| without energy or vutality; showing no enthusiasm |
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| to move or be attracted toward |
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| to touch or scarpe lightly |
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| a remedy for all kinds of diseases or torubles |
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| money; wealth; possessions |
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| showy or bright in a tastless or outrageous way |
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| to make a go of; to treat as a god |
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| related to winter; wintry |
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| of or from the south; southern |
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| not seeking to reach an agreement; stubborn; inflexible |
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| related to changes and diffrencse in word usage |
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| to assure as genuine; to verify or prove valid |
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| a taking by force; the things so takeb |
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| happy; peacful; extrmely pleasent |
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| able to speak 2 languages |
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| a person who falsey claims to be an expert, especially in the field of medicine |
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| being mortal; subject to death |
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| to irritate, provoke, or annoy |
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| someone who loves books or reading |
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| to make ineffective by means of an oppisite force or effect |
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| a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward |
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| pale, especially from illness |
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| At the end of the play, seems to be character MOST intent on going through with the executions |
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| is called in from Beverly to see if there are any witches in Salem |
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| in court, she accused John Proctor of dealing with the devil after Abigail turned on her |
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| is "sick" at the beginning of the play |
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| lied about why Abigail was put out of the house |
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| wanted to get Elizabeth out of the way |
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| tries to convince Elizabeth to tell her husband to lie and say he is a witch to save his life |
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| is the leader of the congragtion in Salem |
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| said she saw a "yellow bird" |
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| takes Abigail's place in the procctor's home |
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| Partially blames herself ofr her husband's affair |
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| had a very bad fortune in having healthy children & grand children |
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| discovered the girls dancing in the forest |
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| said that he had made many apperances in front of the court |
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| could probably be considered the "main character" or "proagonist" in the play |
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| is affraid of loosing his position because of Betty's actions |
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| "You are alone with her?" |
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| "In the book of record that Mr.PArris keeps, I note that you are rarley in the church on Sabbath Day." |
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| "Where is my wood? My contract provides I be supplied with all my firewood." |
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| "I came to think he fancied her. And so one night I lost my wits, I think, and put her out on the highroad." |
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| "I think you must go to Salem, John. I think so. You must tell them it is fraud." |
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| "I must tell you, sir, I will be gone every day now. I am amazed you do not see the weighty work we do." |
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| "Oh, please, MAry! Don't come down.... MAry, please don't hurt me." |
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| Do you ever tell me you've never looked up at my window?" |
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| "Only be sure of this, for I know it now: Whatevr you will do, it is a good man does it." |
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| "No,no,sir, I dont truck with no Deil!... I love me Betty." |
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| "I never kept no poppets, not since I were a girl." |
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| "....it may well be that God damns a liar less than he that throws his life away for pride." |
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| "Tituba, the devil is out and preying o her like a beast upon the flesh of the pure lamb. God will bless you for your help." |
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| "Yoou have all witnessed it; what more is needed?... God does not need my name nailed upon the church." |
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| "Now look you.All of you.We dnaced.and Tituba conjured Ruth Putman's dead sisters. And athat is all. And mark this. Let either of you breathe a wword, or the edge of a word, about the other things, anf I will come to you in the balck of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it." |
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| "I have given yyou my soul; leave me my name." |
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| "it were only sport in the beginnin, sir, but then the whole wolrd cred spirits, spirits, and I-I promise you, Mr.Danforth, I only thouht I saw them but I did not." |
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| :Here is all the invisible woorld, caught, defined, and calculated... we shall find him out if he has come amoung us, and I mean tocrush him utterly if he has shown his face!" |
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| "Mr.Procor. When the Devil came to you, did you see Rebecca Nurse in his company?" |
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| "I have eleven children, and I am 26 time a grabdma." |
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| "I have 3 children- how my I teach them to walk like men in the world, amd I sold my friends?" |
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| "You forget nothin' and forgive nothin.Learn charity, women. I have gone tiptoe in this house all seven months since she is gone." |
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| :I will cut off my hand before I'll ever reach for you again. Wipe it out of mind. We never touched." |
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| "I have known her sir, I have known her." |
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| Why did Arthur Miller write this play? |
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| To comment on the red scare |
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| battle in 1950's-1980's betwen U.S. & Russia to see who will be the super power |
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| What was the "Red Scare?" |
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| Before what committe was Miller asked to tstify? |
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| House unAmerican activites committee |
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| in what year is the play set? |
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| What is meant by the term "mass hysteria?" |
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| people go crazy when a rumor is spread |
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| What does the term "whitch hunt" meant today? |
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| you go after a group f peoplefor no reason beause of a stereotype |
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| Why did Elizabeth Proctor deny her husband's affair in court? |
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| She didnt know he told the truth and tried to protect his rep |
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| What was the result of this decision by Elizabeth Proctor to tell the truth? |
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| repitition of beggining consanat sounds |
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| a stressed syllabol & all ot the slack symbols that go with it |
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| the most common foot in enlish language |
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| ryhme of the terminal syllabols |
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| rhyme that occurs in a single line of verse |
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| 2 words forced to rhyme that dont |
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| the pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem or song |
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| an analogy between two objects or ideas |
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| a figure of speech comparing two unlike things |
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| a rhetorical device in which statements are exaggerated |
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| a very old pattern or theme that appers in literature across countries or time periods |
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| something such as an object, picture, written word, sound, or particular mark that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention |
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| an imaginary or fictitious thing or person |
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1.14 lines
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| a crunching or subtractng of a syllabol to keep the beat steady |
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| an oration by a prophet or member of the clergy |
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| a brief, cleverly worded statement tht make a wise observation about life |
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| wife creates islands trying to get food for sick chief husband |
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ladies house burnt down
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| sinners in the hand of an angry god |
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| a crazy puritan priest who believed evry1 was going to hell |
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| auphorisms by benjamin frankiln |
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| love is not but it is all |
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| to my dear and loving husband |
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crazy lady loves her husband
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| Speech to the virginia convention |
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| telling the president we need to go to warvwith britian |
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| letters t encourage troops to keep fighting |
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| a crazy lonley giy lost his wife trips on opium then thinks his wife is a raven |
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| a sonnet about a guy whos wife died n everything reminds him of her |
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| emerson believes that each person has unique talents and pssions that can be discovered only on ones own |
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| wanted nature to teach him life |
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| resistance to civil government |
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| henery david thoreu wouldnt pay his taxes becuse he didnt believe in the war |
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