Short stories Figurative Language

“The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could”

Hyperbole

“It was about dusk, one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival season”

Setting

“My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met”

Dramatic Irony

“In pace requiscat”

Situational Irony

“Amontillado! Amontillado! Amontialldo!”

Repitition

“The man wore motely. He had on a tight-fitting parti-striped dress, and his head was surmounted by the conical cap and bells”

symbolism

“and putting on a mask of black silk and drawing a cloak closely about my person, I suffered him to hurry me to my palazzo”

Symbolism alluding to the Grim Reaper

“True-true…but you should use all proper caution”

Dramatic Irony

"Montresor recalling that his “heart grew sick”

man vs self

“A draught of this Medoc will defend us from the damps”

symbolism

“He is an ignoramus”

Dramatic Irony

The jingling of the bells throughout the story is an example of which device?

Motif

“I broke and reached him a flagon of De Grave”

foreshadowing

“There came forth only the jingling of the bells”

symbolism

“It is further on, but observe the white web-work which gleams from these cavern walls”

Foreshadowing or Metaphor

“And I [drink] to [Fortunato’s] long life”

Verbal Irony

“Come, we will go back; your health is precious…you will be ill and I cannot be responsible”

Verbal Irony

“The cough’s a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die of a cough.”

Dramatic Irony

“You are not of the masons”

Diction

“We had passed through long walls of piled skeletons, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of the catacombs…’It hangs like moss upon the vaults. We are below the river’s bed. The drops of moisture trickle amoung the bones.’”

mood

“You, who so well know the nature of my soul”

Diction

“A huge human foot d’or, in a field azure; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel”

symbolism

“They tended to gather quietly for a while before they broke into boisterous play”

foreshadowing

“They stood together, away from the pile of stones in the corner, and their jokes were quiet and they smiled rather than laughed”

diction

“The black box grew shabbier each year; by now it was no longer completely black, but splintered badly along one side to show the original wood color, and in some places, faded or stained”

Metaphor

“Thought my old man was out back stacking wood”

colloquialism

“She tapped Mrs. Delacroix on the arm as a farewall and began to make her way through the crowed”

diction, foreshadowing

“‘You didnt give him time enough to take any paper he wanted. I saw you. It wasn’t fair!"‘“

dramatic irony

“I wish they’d hurry…I wish they’d hurry”

repetition

“Anybody ain’t here?”

Colloquialism