Act I Vocabulary for The Crucible

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Speaker says one thing, means the opposite

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Verbal Irony

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Subject, purpose, audience, occasion in writing/speaking

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Rhetorical context

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Contradiction of expectations

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Situational irony

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Art of persuasion in writing or speaking

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Rhetoric

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Secondary character contrasted with another

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Foil

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Audience knows more than characters

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Dramatic irony

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Recurrent thematic element (e.g., hysteria, witchcraft)

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Motif

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Underlying meaning in dialogue

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Subtext

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Circumstances or conditions of an event

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Historical context

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Means of speaking out about societal issues

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Social commentary