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The Cask of Amontillado

The Cask of Amontillado. Edgar Allen Poe. Biography Link. Vocabulary 1 c arnival: is the season immediately before Lent, usually includes festivities and.

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The Cask of Amontillado

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  1. The Cask of Amontillado

  2. Edgar Allen Poe Biography Link

  3. Vocabulary 1carnival: is the season immediately before Lent, usually includes festivities and

  4. Vocabulary 2costumes

  5. Vocabulary 3 catacombs: are underground cemeteries San Callixtus, Italy museum Paris Rome

  6. Vocabulary 4 more catacombs… Hungary Turkey Alexandria, Egypt

  7. Vocabulary 5 virtuoso: a person who has special skills or abilities in a field Beethoven best rugby player gait: a manner of, walking, stepping, or running

  8. Vocabulary 6 afflicted: to be distressed with mental or physical pain accost: to approach and speak to, especially in in an aggressive manner

  9. Vocabulary 7 preclude: to prevent; make impossible retribution: retaliation according to the merits or deserts of an act; especially evil

  10. Vocabulary 8 impunity: free from punishment, harm, or bad consequences explicit: definitely stated; clearly expressed or demonstrated implore: to ask earnestly; to beg

  11. Literary Terms

  12. plot Sequence of events in a narrative story.

  13. verbal irony Irony is a contrast between appearance and reality usually something unexpected. Verbal Irony is when a person says one thing but means another.

  14. dramatic Irony When the audience knows something that the character(s) do not.

  15. narrator is the person who tells the story; the speaker, a character in the story, or even the author.

  16. protagonist is the main character in the story around whom the main conflict revolves and is often the character that the audience sympathizes with.

  17. mood Is the feeling or atmosphere that the author creates in a story. The mood can suggest a specific emotion. The mood can also suggest the quality of a setting, such as somber or calm.

  18. point of view is the relationship of the narrator to the story

  19. Theme themeis the main idea or message of a literary work.

  20. Setting Time and place in which the events of a story occur. Setting helps create mood and includes ideas, customs, values, and beliefs of a particular time. Cask of Amontillado 1800’s; small town in Italy during Carnival

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