Using the abbreviations below, identify the literary device that best describes each quote. Your code is formed by the letters i
n order, IN CAPS. IRONY = I
SIMILE = S
SYMBOLISM = SY
HYPERBOLE = H
METAPHOR = M
ALLUSION = A
PERSONIFICATION = P
1. (Act 1) HALE: The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone, and I must tell you all that I shall not proceed unless you are prepared to believe me if I should find no bruise of hell upon her.
2. (Act 2) ELIZABETH: Abigail brings the other girls into the court, and where she walks the crowd will part like the sea for Israel.
3. (Act 2) HALE: Theology, sir, is a fortress; no crack in a fortress may be accounted small.
4. (Act 2) ELIZABETH: “Adultery, John.”
5. (Act 2) PROCTOR: “Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.”
6. (Act 2) PROCTOR: “I’ll tell you what’s walking Salem—vengeance is walking Salem.”
7. (Act 3) DANFORTH: We born a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment.
8. (Act 3) DANFORTH: This is a sharp time, now, a precise time—we live no longer in the dusky afternoon when evil mixed itself with good and befuddled the world. Now, by God’s grace, the shining sun is up, and them that feat not light will surely praise it.”
9. (Act 4) HALE: “I come to do the Devil’s work. I come to counsel Christians they should belie themselves. His sarcasm collapses. There is blood on my head! Can you not see the blood on my head!”
10. (Act 4) HALE: “I came into this village like a bridegroom to his beloved, bearing gifts of high religion; the very crowns of holy law I brought, and what I touched with my bright confidence, it died…”
