Thursday, October 9, 2014

 

ENGLISH - 1^st trimester – Day 26

 

·         Review answers to “cloze” reading (handout 1- 30) of annotated version of page 286 of “The Cask of Amontillado”

·         Write down the 7 most important things on each page of “The Cask of Amontillado.”

·         Finish the 9-question “The Cask of Amontillado” assignment

• including…8 examples (2 of each) of mood, irony, foreshadowing, imagery from “Cask of Amontillado”
• TO BE COLLECTED TOMORROW

 

ENGLISH homework:

 

·         Finish 1-9 Cask of Amontillado questions:

 

Answer the following questions about “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe

1. Why did Montressor repeatedly offer to let Fortunato leave the catacomb?
2. What did Montressor “dislike” about Fortunato?
3. Why did Montressor keep mentioning the niter?
4. Who was Luchesi and what was his profession?
5. Draw a picture of Montressor’s coat of arms (see pg. 289)
6. List the order of emotions that Fortunato experiences once chained to the wall. (starting on pg. 291) There are 8 total.
7. How does Poe show us that Fortunato is getting more drunk? List 2 examples.
8. Poe uses both Latin and Italian language in this story. Write down one example of each language from the story.
9. Take out your Literary Terms packet and review definitions of: mood, irony, foreshadowing, imagery

Write down 8 examples (2 of each) of mood, irony, foreshadowing, imagery from “Cask of Amontillado” (pgs. 286 – 292 in textbook or http://www.literature.org/authors/poe-edgar-allan/amontillado.html ) – DIRECTLY QUOTING THE TEXT - WORD FOR WORD for each example

 

·         Study for Friday’s fill-in-the blank Prefix test (the next 11 prefixes from “30-15-10” list) including the following prefixes from your sheet = hypo-, in-, inter-, mal-/male-, mis-, mono-, non-, ob-, omni-, preter-, pro-