Describe The Catacombs That Fortunato Is Led Through

Question: Verbal Irony

Answer: when Montressor toasts to the long life of Fortunato knowing he’s going to kill

Question: Dramatic Irony

Answer: When Fortunato is being led down to look at the wine (he thinks he’s going to get wine but really being setup to be killed)

Question: Protagonist

Answer: Montressor, the narrator. he explains that he has been wronged by Fortunato, the antagonist. He lets the reader in on his plot to get revenge.

Question: Mood

Answer: Suspenseful; Example: “We crept down the long dark hallway”

Question: Theme

Answer: REVENGE: What goes around comes around. It can be looked at as revenge as a driving force behind a person going so far as to commit a murder or as twisting the mind of a person who is vengeful to begin with. The idea of revenge is repeated several times in the opening paragraph.

Question: What is the meaning of the phrase “A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser”?

Answer: Montressor is saying that wrongs committed against him by Fortunato were never made up for or Fortunato never made the wrongs right, so now retribution or punishment will have to serve the redresser, Fortunato, instead.

Question: Why did Montressor seek revenge on Fortunato?

Answer: Because he was insulted by Fortunato

Question: How did Montressor know that the house would be empty?

Answer: He told his servants to not to leave the house because he would not return until the morning.

Question: Where had the stone and mortar, used by Montressor to wall up the entrance to the niche, been hidden?

Answer: Under a pile of bones

Question: In your own words, describe the catacombs that Fortunato is led through.

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