The Catacombs of Vocab
to make impossible, especially by taking action in advance
What is preclude?
to leave/escape secretly
What is abscond?
Montresor wanted to punish Fortunato for this reason.
What is insulting Montresor?
This is the setting of The Cask of Amontillado.
What is an Italian city during carnival season?
What are the Montressor family catacombs?
This is the largest flightless bird in the world.
What is an ostrich?
death or destruction
What is immolation?
an opening, such as a hole or a gap
What is an aperture?
According to Montresor, this is how his revenge would fail.
What is him being overcome with retribution or Fortunato feeling no remorse.
Montresor's scheming of revenge and faigned kindness toward Fortunato is a part of this part of plot.
What is the rising action?
This is commonly ranked as the #1 Halloween candy.
What is Reese's Peanut Butter Cup?
*DAILY DOUBLE*
Use the following word correctly in a sentence:
abscond
*check responses
huge or very great in size
What is colossal?
The tasting of this drink is the main draw used by Montresor to lure Fortunato to his death.
What is Amontillado wine?
*TOTALLY TERRIFIC TRIPLE*
This is the resolution of the story.
What is the reader being left to believe that Fortunato died in the catacombs?
Halloween evolved from this ancient Irish Celtic festival.
What is Samhain?
freedom from punishment/penalty or harm
What is impunity?
a state of being at rest; to lie dead or at rest
What is repose?
Montresor uses this local wine connoisseur's name as bait for Fortunato.
Who is Luchesi?
This is the climax of the story.
What is Montresor building a wall to seal in Fortunato?
This island country in the Northern Atlantic Ocean continually ranks as the country with the least amount of crime in the world.
What is Iceland?
This is what Montresor plotted to enact upon Fortunato.
What is retribution?
Use the following word correctly in a sentence:
accost
*check responses
The mentioning of this by Montresor suggests that his crime has gone undiscovered.
What is Fortunato's burial spot being undisturbed for 50 years.
This is the inciting incident of The Cask of Amontillado.
What is Fortunato's insult directed toward Montresor?
*One question to rule them all...(quadruple points)*
The German confectionary company, Haribo, derives its name from this.
What is a combination of the founder's name, Hans Riegel, and the founding location of Bonn, Germany?