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        <title><![CDATA[This question has been previously asked and answered. Please see the...]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the characterization of Montresor in "The Cask of Amontillado"...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the characterization of Montresor in "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allen Poe?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 14:50:43 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Edgar Allan Poe immediately gives us a sense that the narrator of his...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Edgar Allan Poe immediately gives us a sense that the narrator of his story is overly obsessed with getting revenge on his "friend" Fortunado, who had supposedly caused him a "thousand injuries."  We never understand what these injuries are, when or even if they actually occurred, and if so, how exaggerated the narrator's claim really is.  He states in the opening paragraph:

At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitively...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:38:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "The Cask of Amontillado," what observations provide clues to the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "The Cask of Amontillado," what observations provide clues to the narrator's state of mind? ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 09:33:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[    I assume you are asking for an explanation of the sentence,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[    I assume you are asking for an explanation of the sentence, rather than a grammatical breakdown. Please let me know if this is not correct.    The sentence in question begins the fourth paragraph of Edgar Allan Poe's short story, "The Cask of Amontillado." It introduces the direct action of the story, preceded by three paragraphs of exposition.

It was about dusk, one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival season, that I...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 08:31:56 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[    I assume you are asking for an explanation of the sentence,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[    I assume you are asking for an explanation of the sentence, rather than a grammatical breakdown of each word. Please let me know if this is not correct.    This quote, from Edgar Allan Poe's short story, "The Cask of Amontillado," refers to Fortunato's final steps into the catacombs of the Montressors.

"In an instant he had reached the extremity of the niche, and finding his progress arrested by the rock, stood stupidly...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 08:15:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Explain: "In an instant he had reached the extremity of the niche, and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Explain: "In an instant he had reached the extremity of the niche, and finding his progress arrested by the rock, stood stupidly bewildered."]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 07:30:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Explain: "It was about dusk, one evening during the supreme madness of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Explain: "It was about dusk, one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival season, that I encountered my friend."
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        <pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 07:19:17 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story, "The Cask of Amontillado,"...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story, "The Cask of Amontillado," Montressor seeks to avenge an unnamed earlier insult against him. Although both men are Italian, Montressor suggests that Fortunato, and "his countrymen," are apparently from a different area. The quote in question

"In painting and gemmary, Fortunato, like his countrymen, was a quack."

suggests that Fortunato, though a collector or a lover of fine art and jewels (gemmary),...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 07:14:08 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Would you like the sentence broken down in terms of meaning or in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Would you like the sentence broken down in terms of meaning or in grammatical terms (diagramming)? The two are connected, of course, and I'll try my hand at both, using a common method in descriptive grammar. This sort of thing is open to interpretation, of course, so maybe others will offer their versions.
The core sentence is "Fortunato was a quack." "Fortunato" (which is a proper noun) could be called the noun phrase functioning as the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 07:08:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Can you break down this sentence for me: "In painting and gemmary,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Can you break down this sentence for me: "In painting and gemmary, Fortunato, like his countrymen, was a quack."
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        <pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 06:45:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[    Although there is verbal irony throughout Edgar Allan Poe's short...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[    Although there is verbal irony throughout Edgar Allan Poe's short story, "The Cask of Amontillado," examples excluding the antagonist Fortunato are quite limited. As Montressor leads his intended victim deeper into the catacombs, he decides to ply Fortunato with more wine.

Here I knocked off the neck of a bottle which I drew from a long row of its fellows that lay upon the mould.

The phrasing of "knocked off" and "fellows that lay"...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:41:30 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are three examples of verbal irony in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are three examples of verbal irony in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" that does not directly involve Fortunato?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:29:58 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In short, having to decide between your answers, c or d, I would choose...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In short, having to decide between your answers, c or d, I would choose c. However there is more to consider than that.
"The Cask of Amontillado" is narrated in the first person and Montresor, admits in the first sentence that he will have revenge. He speaks directly to the reader as "you" assuming that the reader knows his soul. Montresor's voice is so even--not strained or emotional--he tells his story straightforwardly. However, he leaves...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:07:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is one reason that the reader knows Montresor is an unreliable...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is one reason that the reader knows Montresor is an unreliable narrator?  ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:43:46 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[More specifically, a 'pipe' is a wine cask having a capacity of 126...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[More specifically, a 'pipe' is a wine cask having a capacity of 126 gallons or 2 hogsheads (478 liters).
One evening, during the Carnival season the narrator Montresor meets Fortunato and lures him into his cellars by lying to him saying that he had received a cask of a rare wine called Amontillado and that he would like Fortunato to certify its genuineness:

It was about dusk, one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival season,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:12:54 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[A pipe is a large barrel of wine.  You are probably referring to when...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A pipe is a large barrel of wine.  You are probably referring to when he says he received "a pipe of Amontillado."  Montresor is telling Fortunato that he has a large amount (a "pipe") of a rare kind of wine in order to seduce him into the cellar.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:38:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does the word "pipe" mean  in Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado?"]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/cask-amontillado/q-and-a/what-pipe-109803</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What does the word "pipe" mean  in Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado?"]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:27:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The setting of the carnival season also serves to further Fortunato's...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The setting of the carnival season also serves to further Fortunato's death.  Because of the festivities going on, Montresor is able to send off his servants without suspicion.  He also finds Fortunato is a more malleable mood on the night that the narrator invites him over.  Fortunato's jester costume represents not only the festive atmosphere outside the house, but it also eerily suggests Montresor's plans to make a fool out of his enemy.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:41:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The setting in the story is dark and spooky, and it becomes even more...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The setting in the story is dark and spooky, and it becomes even more forbidding. As sober Montresor leads drunken Fortunato deeper and deeper into the catacombs, the implication is that only one of them is coming out, and it won't be Fortunato. The setting itself is a place of death. This is a place where people are buried, where their bones lie undisturbed for centuries.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:05:23 PST</pubDate>
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