"The Pedestrian"
What is the setting (time and place) of "The Pedestrian"?
Answer: Nighttime in the year 2053 on city streets.
Where and when does "The Sniper" take place?
Answer: On a rooftop in Dublin, Ireland during the Irish Civil War.
Where and when does "The Cask of Amontillado" take place?
Answer: In the underground catacombs during Carnival season in Italy (1800s).
What type of conflict is Republican Sniper vs. Free State Sniper?
Answer: Character vs. Character (External Conflict).
In "The Pedestrian," what is the only brightly lit house on the street?
Answer: Hope
Name two literary devices Bradbury uses to describe the city neighborhood and the mood they create.
Answer: Metaphor (neighborhood to a graveyard) and Simile (houses to tombs); creates a gloomy, dead, or eerie mood.
What is the overall mood of "The Sniper"?
Answer: Suspenseful, intense, and tense.
What fueled Montresor's intense desire to seek revenge against Fortunato?
Answer: A "thousand injuries" or insults from Fortunato.
What type of conflict is Leonard Mead vs. the robotic car / society?
Answer: Character vs. Society (External Conflict).
In "The Sniper," what object is placed on the rifle muzzle as a decoy?
Answer: The sniper's cap.
What makes Leonard Mead different from everyone else in his society?
Answer: He likes to walk outside at night and does not like/use technology/TV.
How does the sniper trick the enemy sniper into thinking he is dead?
Answer: He puts his cap on the muzzle of his rifle, lets the enemy shoot it, drops his arm, and lets the rifle fall.
How does Montresor manipulate Fortunato into going down into the catacombs?
Answer: He appeals to Fortunato's pride/ego as a wine expert and threatens to ask Luchesi instead.
What is the definition of situational irony?
Answer: When the opposite of what is expected to happen actually occurs.
In "The Cask of Amontillado," what rare item is used as bait to lure Fortunato?
Answer: A cask of Amontillado (wine).
Who or what is the main antagonist, and what primary external conflict does it represent?
Answer: The robotic police car; it represents Character vs. Society.
Describe the internal conflict the sniper experiences after killing his enemy.
Answer: He shifts from feeling fanatical/eager to kill to feeling remorse, guilt, and disgust.
Why is Fortunato’s jester costume symbolic?
Answer: It shows he is literally dressed as a fool, representing how easily he is tricked to his death.
What is the definition of dramatic irony?
Answer: When the audience knows something the characters do not.
Which story features a character being taken to the "Psychiatric Center for Research on Regressive Tendencies"?
Answer: "The Pedestrian".
What does Leonard Mead's lit house symbolize, and what is the situational irony in his arrest?
Answer: Symbolizes hope/warmth/individuality. The irony is he is locked in a psych ward for being sane while everyone else is mindless.
What is the situational irony at the end of the story, and what life lesson does it teach?
Answer: He expects to kill an enemy but kills his own brother; shows that war forces you to make tough decisions.
Explain one example each of verbal, situational, and dramatic irony in the story.
Answer:
Verbal: Montresor toasts to Fortunato's long life.
Situational: Fortunato expecting to drink wine but being buried alive. OR Fortunato means "lucky" but he is actually unlucky.
Dramatic: The reader knows Montresor will kill Fortunato, but Fortunato does not.
What is the definition of Verbal Irony?
Answer: When someone SAYS the opposite of what they mean, or sarcasm.
Name the secondary wine expert mentioned by Montresor to make Fortunato jealous.
Answer: Luchesi.