Bellringer

Answer one of the following questions:

1. Is revenge ever justified?

2. Have you ever thought of enacting revenge
on someone for something? Explain the
situation.
Cask of Amontillado
Mood and Irony
 Behind the Story
 Poe had a real fear of being buried alive
 After reading Poe’s work, a Russian inventor
created a device that allowed “deceased” to
ring a bell so that live people above ground
would know the buried person was not really
dead
 Think about this as we read “Cask of
Amontillado” Poe Biography
Catacombs
 A network of caves, grottos, or
subterranean place that is used
for the burial of the dead

 Etruscans used to bury their

dead in underground chambers.
Christians revived the practice
because they did not want to
cremate their dead due to their
belief in bodily resurrection.
Hence they began to bury their
dead, first in simple graves and
sometimes in burial vaults.

 Have you seen Indiana Jones

and the Last Crusade?
Catacombs
Catacombs
In the days before electricity…
…one would light up dark, damp catacombs
with flambeaux.
What is a cask?
 A wooden barrel or
container

 The word comes from the

Spanish cáscara which
means tree bark, in the
sense that the bark
surrounds and holds the
tree in the way that a
cask surrounds and holds
wine
Amontillado…
 a pale, dry sherry

 named after the

Montilla region of
Spain where this style
of wine originated in
the 18th century
Setting: Carnival Season in Italy
 It is a festival season.
 Occurs immediately before
Lent; the main events are
usually during February or
March.
 Involves a public celebration
or parade combining some
elements of a circus and
public street party.
 People often dress up or
masquerade during the
celebrations.
Carnival History Video
Carnival or Carnevale
 Carnival is mostly
associated with Roman
Catholic and, to a lesser
extent, Eastern Orthodox
Christians.
 The world's largest
carnival celebration is held
in Brazil but many
countries worldwide have
large, popular
celebrations.
Carnival Costumes and Masks
 Mood
 Emotion evoked in the reader by a piece of
writing
 Mood can be identified by descriptive details
author uses
 Example-We walked down the hallway (shows
no mood)
 We crept down the long, dark hallway (you can
identify the suspenseful mood by the vivid verb
crept and the descriptive details long and dark)
 Mood Words List
(Starter List-Can you think of more??)
 POSITIVE MOOD WORDS    NEGATIVE MOOD WORDS
 Playful   Tense
 Tender   Gloomy
 Enlightened   Violent
 Optimistic  Insidious
 Light-Hearted  Pessimistic
 Warm  Confining
 Hopeful  Cold
 Nostalgic  Hopeless
 Peaceful  Haunting
 Welcoming   Nightmarish
 Harmonious   Hostile
 Vivacious  Suspenseful
 Confident  Foreboding
 Idyllic  Threatening
 Joyous  Desolate
 Dignified  Merciless
 Ecstatic  Terrifying
 Empowered         Vengeful

While reading Poe’ “Cask of Amontillado,” write down words/phrases that

create mood
 IRONY
The result of a contrast
between appearance or
expectation and reality
*Hiding what is actually the case to achieve
special, artistic effects
 Verbal Irony
 Words are  Example-

used to Someone
says, “Don’t be
suggest nervous; it’s
opposite of only the most
what is meant important test
of your life.”
Dramatic Irony
 What
 Example-A boy
appears tells his mother he
to be true to a is late because he
character is not was at a friend’s
what the reader house. The
or audience audience knows
knows to be that the mother
true talked to friend’s
mother and knows
son was not there.
Situational Irony
 Example-A
 Anevent
story has a
occurs that mouse
goes against chasing a cat
expectations  Expectations
that have are a cat
been built up chasing a
mouse
Explain the irony
 Turn to a partner and discuss the irony of the
following images
Explain the irony (cont’d)
Explain the irony (cont’d)
Explain the irony (cont’d)
Explain the irony (cont’d)
“Cask of Amontillado”
Irony Example
 “’I drink to the buried that repose around
us,” says Fortunato. “And I to your long
life,” Montresor replies.”
 Montresor is not really drinking to
Fortunato’s long life; he is playing on the
fact that he will soon kill Fortunato.
 What type of irony is this?
Vocabulary Practice
 Complete the Vocabulary paper with a
partner.
 You will need to fill in a new definition and
create a visual definition for the six words
for this story.