PPT-“The Cask of Amontillado” Class Notes

Short Answer Steps amp Example Plot Diagram Exposition Rising Action Inciting Incident Climax Falling Action Denouement Resolution Plot Diagram Characterization Characterization is the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character Characterization is revealed through . By Edgar Allan Poe . What is a cask of Amontillado?. What does the word cask sound like to you? . (hint-Think death). Amontillado is a very expensive dry, white wine. . Characters. Montresor. Montresor. Please have out your typed compare/contrast essays.. 3A: Megan . Ledwick. and Grace . Rhinehart. —if you do not have yours, you may email each other your work. . Please spend the first 15-20 minutes silently reading a book of your choice. (1/2 page summary with book of my choice if you do not have a book).. Next. The Cask of Amontillado. By Edgar Allen Poe. THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely, settled --but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is . Cask of Amontillado” . Vocabulary. Irony. Reading notes /helps. Please have you warm-up notebook out to . complete activities and take notes. “Cask of Amontillado”. Quick Activity. : . Copy each word and rate it 1-4. . 10/30. LO: Can I identify symbolism in a short story?. Welcome Work:. Write down the title, date, and LO on an old piece of paper (NO NOTES TODAY).. 1. Take out Week 4 Vocab . Wkst. .. 2. Take . out your . Create a six frame comic strip.. You must include characters, setting, parts of plot, conflict, dialogue and detail.. Your finished comic should be in color or nicely done pencil shading.. Your finished project is worth 40 points and will be due . Background for Poe’s Short Story. Edgar Allan Poe. Author, not the narrator, of the story “The Cask . . .”. Developed characters whose sanity is questionable.. Father of the genre “the short story”. Catacombs are underground burial vaults.. An underground cemetery consisting of chambers or tunnels with recesses for graves. . An underground, often labyrinthine (very confusing tunnels…like a maze) passageway.. represents the tale of revenge and manipulation.” – Ebert. “ Poe has done it again…instilling the fear of the darkness within us.” – . Gregson. “Amontillado. shows that man will do anything to get back.” – Arbor. Background for Poe’s Short Story. Edgar Allan Poe. Author, not the narrator, of the story “The Cask . . .”. Developed characters whose sanity is questionable.. Father of the genre “the short story”. PROOF ONE:. One of the main characters are named . Fortunado. . In the end, this character dies.. PROOF TWO:. Montressor. jokes that he is a mason when . Fortunado. asks for a sign, and . Monstressor. by: Altay, Shawn, Peter, and Justin. Pg. 211 “We had passed through walls of piled bones, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of the catacombs”. Pg. 212 “We passed through a range of low arches, descended, passed on, and descending again, arrived at a deep crypt, in which the foulness of the air caused our flambeaux rather to glow than flame.”. To analyze how the use of irony achieves specific effects. Lesson 38. “The Cask of Amontillado”. Story Diagram & Irony. Bell Ringer. In the literary terms section of your journal, define the following terms located on page 105:. PROOF ONE:. One of the main characters are named . Fortunado. . In the end, this character dies.. PROOF TWO:. Montressor. jokes that he is a mason when . Fortunado. asks for a sign, and . Monstressor.