Plot
The reason why Montressor wants revenge against Fortonato.
What is an insult?
When the speaker means the opposite of what they say.
What is verbal irony?
When Montresor reassures Fortunato not to worry about death.
What is verbal irony?
To make impossible in advance.
What is preclude?
The football team that is named in honor of Poe.
What are the Baltimore Ravens?
The only way that Montresor thinks his revenge will be successful.
What is not getting caught?
When the opposite happens than what one would expect.
What is situational irony?
The fact that Fortunato's name means "fortunate".
What is situational irony?
Freedom from punishment.
What is impunity?
The emotional state that Poe was in when his wife died.
What is very upset?
The subject that Fortunato is an expert in and is also his weak point.
What is knowledge of wine?
When the audience knows something will happen that one or more characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
The example of dramatic irony in the text.
When the audience knows Montresor is planning revenge, but Fortunato does not
Punishment
What is retribution?
The two universities that Poe attended.
What is the University of Virginia and West Point?
The setting of the story.
Where is a carnival in Italy?
When the narrator cannot be trusted because they are not telling the whole truth.
What is an unreliable narrator?
The clue that Montresor is an unreliable narrator.
What is he does not reveal all details of the past?
Intrude
What is to impose?
The type of story that Poe was credited with writing the very first of.
What is the detective story?
The thing that Montresor does when he thinks about getting revenge against Fortunato.
What is smile?
The author's attitude towards the subject they are writing about.
The tone of the story.
What is mounting hysteria?
Moving backwards.
What is recoiling?
Types of pieces that Poe wrote (3).
What are poems, short stories, and news articles?