Characters
This character's name means "good luck" or "lucky," which is ironic given his fate.
Who is Fortunato?
The narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart" hides the old man's body here
Where is under the floorboards?
Both "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Cask of Amontillado" use this narrative point of view
What is first-person point of view?
The author of all three short stories.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
The main difference in the outcome of the two murder stories is that the narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart" confesses, while Montresor does not get caught for how long?
What is fifty years?
The narrator of this story claims he loves the old man but is troubled by his "vulture eye."
Which is "The Tell-Tale Heart" narrator?
This is the specific type of expensive wine used to lure Fortunato into the catacombs.
What is Amontillado?
The beating heart in "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a symbol of this
What is the narrator's guilt?
The mood in all three stories is generally described as eerie, suspenseful, and this.
What is horrific/gothic/dark?
In "The Tell-Tale Heart," the narrator claims to have no motive (he "loved the old man"), but in "The Cask of Amontillado," the motive is clearly stated as this.
What are the "thousand injuries" and an insult from Fortunato (revenge)?
This character is the rival of the painter's wife in "The Oval Portrait".
What is the painter's art?
In "The Oval Portrait," the narrator and his servant seek refuge in an abandoned chateau because the narrator is this.
What is wounded?
Montresor's toast to Fortunato's "long life" is an example of this literary device.
What is verbal irony?
In "The Oval Portrait," the artist is so focused on his work that he does not realize this is happening to his wife.
What is that she is dying (her life force is being absorbed by the painting)?
Fortunato's death is slow and painful (walled up), whereas the old man's death is described as this
What is quick and painless (suffocated with a heavy bed)?
Montresor addresses his story to a person who "so well know[s] the nature of [his] soul," possibly a priest or family member on his deathbed.
To whom is Montresor confessing his crime?
Montresor ensures his servants will be away from the house during his crime by telling them this.
What is that he will be out, and he explicitly told them not to stir from the house, knowing they would disobey him and leave?
"The Oval Portrait" is structured as a story within a story, which is an example of this narrative style.
What is a framed narrative (or embedded narrative)?
This detail on the Montresor family crest suggests that they take revenge seriously: a foot crushing a snake that is biting the heel of the foot.
What is the image on the coat of arms/crest?
All three stories include isolation, obsession, darkness, and the macabre. These are characteristics of ____.
What is Gothic Literature?
he narrator repeatedly insists he is not this, though his actions suggest otherwise.
What is "mad" (insane)?
This is the reason that the narrator of "The Tell Tale Heart" waits until the 8th night to kill the old man.
What is the eye was always closed. It was not the old man who bothered him, but instead it was the old man's eye.
The narrator's in the "Tell Tale Heart" and "Cask of Amontillado" are classified as which type of narrator and why?
What is an unreliable narrator because they want the reader to believe their biased view of the story.
The meaning of the Montressor's family motto, "Nemo me impune lacessit"
What is, ""No one attacks me with impunity".
While the narrators of "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Cask of Amontillado" are both self-confessed murderers who claim to be sane, how does the narrator of The Oval Portrait differ in his "crime?"
What is: The narrator of "The Oval Portrait" is not the perpetrator of the crime; he is an observer reading about it