Cask of Amontillado Vocabulary
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The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
Lesson Plans by Rebecca Ray
"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 Vocabulary
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- Slide: 1
- AMONTILLADO
- (N.) A dry pale sherry, a type of alcohol similar to wine. Luchresi cannot tell Amontillado from sherry.
- Slide: 2
- RETRIBUTION
- (N.) Payback, punishment, revenge. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.
- Slide: 3
- IMPUNITY
- (N.) Freedom from consequences. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity.
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