In the short story, the “Cask of Amontillado”, Edgar Allan Poe uses characterization to

creative an ominous mood.

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

states that “it is this” and flashes the tools he will use to kill Fortunado (212). He says this

not in the sense that he is a member of a secret society, but he builds walls. He comes across as sinister and sarcastic, and adds to

the suspense.

PROOF THREE:

When Montressor tells Fortunado to “…

let me implore you to return. No? Then I

must positively leave you. But I must

first render you all the little attentions in

my power”, he comes across as a

revengeful character (212).

PROOF FOUR:When Fortunado decides to play off his fear by

stating “Ha ha ha-he he he-a very good joke indeed-an excellent jest. We will have many a rich laugh at the palazzo, the lady Fortunado and the

rest? Let us be gone”, he shows that he feels obligated to impress and not be fearful (214).

In the short story “The Cask of Amontillado,” Edgar Allen Poe uses imagery to create a horrific mood.

• “The drops of moisture trickle among the bones.”(211)

• “We had passed through walls of piled bones with casks and puncheons intermingling into the inmost recesses of the catacombs.” (211)

• “ 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 cause our flambeaux rather to glow than flame.(212)

• “ In its surface were two iron staples, distant from each other about two feet, horizontally. From one of these depended a short chain, from which the other a padlock.” (212)

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In the short story “The Cask Of Amontillado,” Edgar Allen Poe uses imagery to create a horrific mood.

“we had passed through walls of piled bones…” (211)

“’ but observe the white web-work which gleams from these cavern walls’” (210).

“’I drink to the buried that repose around us’” (211).

“ A succession of loud and shrill screams , came bursting suddenly from the throat of the chained form, seemed to thrust me violently back” (214).

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“Cask” Imagery So-What

In the short story, “The Cask of Amontillado” Edgar Allen Poe uses imagery to create a horrific mood

• “The earliest “… and looked into my eyes with two filmy orbs that distilled the rheum of the intoxication”

• indication that I has of this was a low moaning cry from the depth of the recess.”

• “Its termination the feeble light did not enable us too see.”• “We had passed through walls of piling bones … in the inmost recesses of

the catacombs.”

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In the short story, “The Cask of Amontillado,” Edgar Allen Poe uses foreshadowing to create a

dark mood.

“I must not only punish, but punish with impunity” P. 209

“A thousand injuries of Fortunado I had borne as best I could… I vowed revenge.” P. 209

“…I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face and he did not percieve that my smile now was a t the thought of his immolation.” P. 209

“ (Montresor) had told them that I should not return until the morning, and given them explicit orders not to stir from the house.”

In the short story “the Cask of Amontillado,” edgar Allen Poe emphasizes an eerie setting to create an ominous mood.

“At the most remote end of the crypt appeared another less spacious. Its walls had been lined with human remains…” (212)

‘“ the vaults are insufferably damp there are crusted with niter.”’ said Montressor. (211)

“ we had passed through walls of piled bones, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of the catacombs.” (211)

‘” We are below the rivers bed. The drops of moisture trickle among the bones.”’ (211)

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In the short story “The Cask of Amontillado,” Edgar Allen Poe uses man v. man conflict to create a suspenseful mood.

“The thousand injuries of Fortunado I had borne the best I could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge” (209).

“A moment more and I had fettered him to the granite” (212).

“A succession of loud and chill screams, bursting suddenly from the throat of the chained form, seemed to thrust me violently back” (214).

“I must not only punish, but punish with impunity” (209).

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