Plot and Theme
What was the theme for “The Cask of Amontillado”?
What is revenge?
What is a wooden barrel that is usually used to store wine?
What is a cask?
What are the two main characters names in the story?
What is Montresor and Fortunato?
What is a small phrase either before, after, or in the middle of actual dialogue that indicates the speaker?
What is a speaker tag/dialogue tag/narration/narrator’s words?
This type of irony occurs when the readers (audience) are aware of the situation before the characters are.
What is dramatic irony?
What is the narrative device in which a storyteller gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story?
What is foreshadowing?
Fill in the blank
Montresor's skills as a ________ was clear, as he plasters the wall, in which Fortunato is trapped.
What is a mason?
According to Montresor, Fortunato's bones have remained undisturbed for ______?
What is half a century?
Whenever there is a new speaker or a change in speakers within dialogue, what are the two things you need to do first?
What is start/go to a new line and indent?
What is climax?
Is “the struggle between good and evil” a universal theme?
What is yes?
Montresor's entire plan was __________ because had Fortunato insulted him.
What is retribution?
What is the name of the character who Montresor said he would get to taste test the wine instead of Fortunato?
Who is Luchesi?
What punctuation mark should go before the closing quotation in the sentence below?
“Pull the curtains now” Laura shouted.
What is an exclamation mark?
What point of view is the sentence below using?
Jada eagerly answered the question.
What is third person?
What is the literary device that an author uses to take the narrative back in time from the current point in the story?
What is a flashback?
When Montresor states that he wants to punish Fortunato, but he also stated that he wants to punish with ______.
What vocabulary word goes in the blank?
What is impunity?
What were the last words Montresor quoted at the very end of the story? (Latin or English version is acceptable)
What is In pace requiescat? or What is Rest in Peace?
What type of dialogue is represented in the sentence below,
"Look over there," she said, pointing to the corner. "Over by the bookshelves."
(Spoken word first, Narration first, or Interrupted dialogue)
What is interrupted dialogue?
In a text (book, play, and etc.), the conversation between two of more characters (which are put inside of quotation marks) is labeled as _______?
What is dialogue/spoken word?
List the six parts of a story.
What is exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
Fortunato's eyes had to become accustomed to the darkness of the niche, as there was no _________ to let in any form of light.
What is aperature?
The irony of life and death in the setting of this short story is achieved through the contrast of what two places:
__________ and the ________?
What is festival (carnival) and catacombs?
Thinking back to the different options on how to write dialogue in a text, which option did the author use in the example below (describe the option)?
“Hey Jen, are you listening?”
“Am I what?”
“Are you listening to me?”
“What?”
“Arrrre youuuu listeninggg? I’ve been talking to you for thirty minutes now.”
What is Option 4- dialogue with no narration/speaker tag?
What is another word used for resolution?
What is denouement?