Literary Elements in Cask of Amontillado Storyboard
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The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
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"The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe, is a short story inspired by true events that took place on Castle Island, a former military fort off of Boston Harbor, in Massachusetts. When Poe was stationed there as young cadet in the Army, he found a peculiar gravestone. After some inquiry, he learned a story of a man who had been walled up alive. Forbidden by his commander to ever repeat the particulars, Poe took the plot line and changed the setting and characters.
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The Cask of Amontillado Literary Elements Spider Map Storyboard
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- “He had a weak point --this Fortunato --although in other regards he was a man to be respected and even feared. He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine.”
- “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could...”
- “He turned towards me, and looked into my eyes with two filmy orbs that distilled the rheum of intoxication."
- "The Cask of Amontillado" Literary Elements
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