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vocab
vocab
comprehension
comprehension
literature
100
This means to restrain with chains or shackles.
What is fetter?
100
This means to approach and speak to in an aggressive, hostile manner.
What is accost?
100
This famous Southern Gothic author wrote "The Cask of Amontillado."
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
100
This is inside the Cask of Amontillado.
What is wine?
100
This literary term is used when human qualities are given to non-human things.
What is personification?
200
This means the end of something, the limit or edge.
What is termination?
200
This means to become less agitated or active; lessen.
What is subside?
200
He is the protagonist of our story.
What is Montresor?
200
The antagonist of the story.
Who is Fortunado?
200
This technique is used to help readers figure out inferences in literature.
What is combining clues from the text with what the reader already knows?
300
This means to lie dead or at rest.
What is repose?
300
This means to beg; earnestly ask for.
What is implore?
300
This is where Montressor takes Fortunado (need the specific name of what they are called).
What is the catacombs in Montressor's house (in the basement)?
300
Montresor keeps these in the catacombs beneath his home.
What are dead people and wine?
300
Despite his villainous behavior, Montresor remains the what of our story.
What is the protagonist?
400
The characteristics of a person with mastery knowledge or skill.
What is virtuoso?
400
This means to be determined before hand; fated.
What is destined?
400
Montressor kills Fortuando this way.
What is Montressor fetters him to the wall and builds another wall around him?
400
Montresor is not part of this secret society.
What are the Free Masons?
400
These four factors are used to create mood in literature.
What are descriptive words, setting, figurative language and sound and rhythm of literature?
500
This means to make impossible, especially by taking action in advance; prevent.
What is preclude?
500
This means freedom from punishment, penalty or harm.
What is impunity?
500
Montressor gives Fortuando wine as they go for this reason.
What is to get Fortunado drunker to make tricking him and killing him easier?
500
Montresor strategically planned for his meeting with Fortunato by doing what to his staff.
What is telling them to stay on his estate during Carnival while he's gone-- which guarantees that they all leave?
500
What are the 3 important elements students need to write in an open response essay.
What is restate the question, use the title and author, and use the words in the prompt to make a statement?