ENGL124 Lecture : English 124 Lecture January 27.docx

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL124
• Professor: Theo Finigan

Document Summary

The cask of amontillado: what is monstrous about montresor, murderer (cid:224) what are his motives and are they justified, manipulative, inhuman, impunity, symbolism, dress suggests secrecy (black cloak and black mask, black attire implies evil, setting is a crypt = death, descent into the crypt symbolizes hell, diabolical = devil. Irony = figure of speech; dissembling or hiding what is actually the case: i. e. : a character in drama who was a dissembler or trickster a manipulator who could not be trusted, a mode of discourse for conveying meanings different from the professed or ostensible meaning, when the surface meaning of a statement is the exact opposite of its actual meaning, verbal irony = he meaning that a speaker implies differs sharply form the meaning that is ostensibly expressed.