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The Cask Of Amontillado Questions & Detailed Answers
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- Cask of Amontillado Irony
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- Yale University
The Cask Of Amontillado Questions & Detailed Answers
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The Cask Of Amontillado Questions &Detailed Answers
I continued as way my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my
smile now was at the thought of his immolation. - ANS Foreshadowing (Montresor
smiles in Fortunato's face as he is thinking about killing him)
The man wore motley. He had on a tight-fitting parti-striped dress and his head
was surmounted by the conical cap and bells. - ANS Situational Irony (He comes
dressed as a fool. Then he is taken as a fool after he follows Montresor for the
Amontillado which leads to his death)
"My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met. How remarkably well you are looking
today!" - ANS Verbal Irony (Chance meeting and although Fortunato looks good
now later he will be dead)
I passed down a long and winding staircase, requesting him to be cautious as he
followed. We came at length to the foot of the descent, and stood together on the
damp ground of the catacombs of the Montresor's - ANS Situational Irony and
Foreshadowing (Ironic because he is telling him to be careful, but he is going to kill
him. Foreshadowing because they are in the catacombs where dead people are
buried)
"Come," I said, with decision, we will go back; your health is precious. You are rich,
respected, admired, beloved; you are happy as once I was. You are a man to be
missed. For me it is no matter. We will go back; you will be ill and I cannot be
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