The Cask of Amontillado
The antagonist or killer in this story.
Who is Montresor?
The character who was the victim in this story.
Who is the old man?
Name one of Mary Shelley's gothic novels which set the tone for all horror novels.
What is Frankenstein?
Name the military school that Poe attended as a young boy.
What is West Point?
Identify the author of this poem.
Who is William Blake?
True or False...
This story was based on an actual disappearance of a young cadet when Poe was at military school.
True
Identify the physical affliction the victim suffered with.
What is a "vulture eye" or a cataract?
Name the type of film that often featured dark backgrounds and black and white settings.
What is film noir?
Name one of Poe's poem about a blackbird.
What is "The Raven."
Identify how the narrator in this poem is similar to the narrator in Poe's short story "The Cask of Amontillado."
What is both hide their anger from their enemy, and they both decide to take revenge.
Name the season just before Lent when Catholic parishioners "feed their flesh" before fasting.
What is Carnival?
Name the action the narrator in this story does every night.
What is the narrator opens the door to look at the old man's eye?
Identify the setting best identifies a gothic genre.
What is a haunted castle in a remote location?
Name the type of literary genre Poe is credit with creating.
What is the short story?
Name the rhetorical device Blake uses in his poem.
What is a metaphor and irony?
Identify the means that Montresor uses to "conceal" his victim's body.
Montresor walls him up alive in the catacombs.
Name the rhetorical device which Poe relies on in his literature and creates a long pause after a character has spoken.
What is the em-dash?
Name the three types of irony used in Poe's short story "The Cask of Amontillado."
What are verbal, situational, and drama irony.
Name the type of narrator Poe introduced into literature that changed literature.
What is the psychologically complex narrator. Poe introduced the reader to view into the killer's "mindset" during the story.
Identify Blake's metaphor for "an apple bright" in his poem.
What is the narrator's anger, which has grown more intense over time?
Name the motto for the Montresor's coat of arms.
What is "Nemo me impune lacessit," which means no one attacks me with impunity.
Describe the killer's guilt and how it affects the story's plot.
What is the killer's guilt forces him to confess to the police?
Name the narrator's insistent comment about his own mental state.
What is "I am ill...I am very ill."
Identify how Edgar Allan Poe's life ended.
What is rabies?
Identify how the victim in Poe's short story "The Cask of Amontillado" and the victim in Blake's poem "A Poison Tree" are different.
What is the victim in Poe's story, Fortunato, is clueless until it is too late while the enemy in Blake's poem attempts to kill the narrator first?