cask of amontillado 2
Terms
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- setting
- where and when the story takes palce
- point of view
- who's telling the story
- protagonist
- the main character, narrator
- antagonist
- opposing force
- conflict
- man vs. himself, fight between opposing forces
- climax
- always found at end, point of highest interest, conflict is resolved
- inimitable
- matchless
- predisposes
- biased
- prodigious
- vast
- expiated
- atonement
- diametrically
- exactly opposite
- placid
- tranquil
- caprice
- whim
- aquiline
- hooked
- fathom
- understand
- volition
- choice
- abstruse
- hard to understand
- erudition
- extensive learning
- metaphysical
- abstract
- therealism
- spiritual
- transendentalism
- philosophical
- effulgence
- bright
- peremptorily
- authoritatively
- imbued
- permeate
- imbibed
- drink
- incipient
- beginning
- succint
- concise
- tinctured
- tinted
- peevish
- cross
- debauch
- corrupt
- procuring
- to obtain by effort
- perverseness
- warped
- odious
- repulsive
- pertinacity
- persistant
- inscrutability
- baffling
- anomalous
- abnormal
- infamy
- bad reputation
- melancholy
- sad
- sojourn
- visit
- alleviation
- lessen, lighten
- undeviating
- unvarying, steady
- transient
- fleeting
- impetuous
- hasty
- prolixity
- tedious, long
- tumultuous
- disorderly
- precluded
- prevent
- immolation
- kill as a sacrifice
- retribution
- given as reward or punishment
- absconded
- to leave secretly
- virtuoso
- skilled in the fine arts
- surmounted
- to rise above
- distilled
- purified, seperated