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Title: The Cask of Amontillado


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The Cask of Amontillado
  • Literary Elements

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Irony(review)
  • Verbal Irony a character says one thing but
    means another
  • Ex Fortunato I shall not die of a cough
  • Fortunato I drink to the buried that repose
    around us. Montresor And I to your long life.
  • Dramatic Irony When audience knows what will
    happen before a character knows. Ex Fortunato
    does not know that he will soon die.

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Mood (review)
  • The feeling/atmosphere created for the readers
  • What is the mood of The Cask of Amontillado?
  • Consider descriptive passages
  • Its walls had been lined with human remains,
    piled to the vault overhead , in the fashion of
    the great catacombs of Paris (212).

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Imagery (review)
  • Description that appeals to the senses sight,
    smell, taste, sound, touch
  • We had passed through walls of piled bonesinto
    the inmost recesses of the catacombsThe drops of
    moisture trickle among the bones (211).
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