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Critical Analysis
Literary Elements
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The narrator or person who tells the story in "Cask of Amontillado is...
Who is Montresor
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The setting for the narrator's revenge is...
What is the catacombs?
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The defense lawyer felt that the public’s desire for ____, eliminated acquittal.
What is retribution?
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Poe’s use of color imagery is central to his questioning of the narrator's motives. His face covered in a black silk mask, and represents biased revenge. In contrast, Fortunato dons the motley-colored costume of the court fool, who gets literally and tragically fooled by Montresor’s masked motives. The color schemes here represent...
What is the irony of Fortunato’s death sentence.
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This is why Montresor took a trowel out of his cape when asked if he is a Mason...
What is that Montresor was referring to masonry, the skill of building walls? Fortunato meant the secret society mason.
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The narrator has a conflict with...
Who is Fortunato?
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The most likely reason the narrator chooses the setting for his revenge is...
What is no one will hear or find Fortunato.
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The criminals knew that they could operate with ___.
What is impunity?
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The repeated allusions to the bones of Montresor’s family that line the vaults foreshadow....
What is the story’s descent into the underworld.
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This is the theme of "The Cask of Amontillado"...
What is "be careful who you insult because you never know who will get revenge" or "do not drink too much because you could make bad decisions"
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This is what Fortunato has done to Montresor, according to Montresor.
What is insult him?
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This event serves as the climax of the plot...
What is Montresor walls up Fortunado in the vaults?
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If I can do a task myself, I’d rather not ___ upon the kindness of others to do it for me.
What is impose?
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The two men’s underground travels are a metaphor for...
What is their trip to hell?
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The resolution is...
What is the narrator gets his revenge?
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This can be predicted from the following sentence spoken by Montresor in "The Cask of Amontillado"? At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely settled. . . .
What is Montresor will carry out his revenge?
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This type of narrator cannot be trusted with the events of the story...
What is an unreliable narrator?
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A whole succession of lawyers had ___ in vain to prove that he was an accessory to the crime.
What is endeavored?
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The motto, in Latin, is “nemo me impune lacessit,” means....
What is, “no one attacks me with impunity.”
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This is what Montresor pulls out from under his cape...
What is a trowel?
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In "The Cask of Amontillado," why does Montresor tell his servants not to leave his house because...
What is he knows they will do the opposite of what they are told?
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The following line from the text is an example of this kind of irony... "My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met" (Poe, 1).
What is verbal irony?
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The witness testified that the ___ of the museum was the act of a lone criminal.
What is immolation?
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This many years has passed between the events and the narrator's telling of the events....
What is 50?
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This is the Montresor's family motto and crest...
What is that no one will offend them without revenge and a picture of a foot stepping on a snake that is biting back at the heel?