Question

Select the choice which best identifies the given passage from "The Cask of Amontillado."
"A succession of loud and shrill screams, bursting suddenly from the throat of the chained form, seemed to thrust me violently back."

A) Tragic resolution

B) Irony/sarcasm

C) Setting

D) Characterization

Answer 1

i think its D

Answer 2

but i am not so sure.....i keep doubting myself :(

Answer 3

You're correct :)

Answer 4

No think about it. They aren't talking about a character

Answer 5

@MyNameIsNemo are you sure? why do you say im right? just to be sure

Answer 6

Because you're characterizing something

Answer 7

Okay, then what is it characterizing?

Answer 8

@ericanoel912 would it be A? but idk why would it be that....

Answer 9

Think of the word "tragic".

Answer 10

But that would mean it's a resolution.

Answer 11

Another name for tragic resolution would be calamity and death. It is a common theme used in literature such as Shakespeare's Famous MacBeth.

Answer 12

It doesn't literally mean "resolved" as in coming to a conclusion. It's just a literary term.

Answer 13

becuase this is what my lesson tells me but it really doesnt say anything else :(






Setting

Let's talk "setting." Your story has to unfold somewhere, so your goal is to make your reader see and feel exactly what the intended image is.

Is it an eerie place?

A dramatic place?

An exciting place?

Whatever it is. Wherever it is. Put your reader right in the middle of it. With words.
Characterization

How about "characterization?" No one cares about a story if they don't care about the characters in it.

So you have to give them personalities. Quirks. Stuff that makes the reader love. Hate. Empathize. FEEL.

Is your character funny? You could communicate this by using jokes, quick wit, funny remarks, and unexpected retorts.

What if your character is sad and lonely? How do you write about hopelessness and despair?

Maybe you isolate your character. Give them internal monologues and negative thoughts and feelings.

Or perhaps your character is supremely awkward. You could show this by having the character dress oddly; say random things; even react to things in the exact opposite manner one would expect.

Ultimately, how your character's personality shines through is up to you. But shine is exactly what it should do.
Irony and Sarcasm

And now for "Irony" and "sarcasm"—great ways to help develop your characters and to enhance your story's impact on the reader.

Irony is sometimes funny. Sometimes shocking. Always unexpected. It's the ridiculousness between what you think is supposed to happen and what actually happens.

Like someone studies hard for a test only to find that it's open book.

Or a guy heads out on a ski trip, gets to the slopes, and discovers there's no snow.

Sarcasm is also unexpected, but typically refers to remarks that mean the opposite of what they seem to say. Plus, it's generally used to mock someone or something. So we've all used it before!

Say the poor guy in the ironic skiing situation gets out of his car, takes a look at the barren, snowless slope, and says, "Now that's some sweet powder."

He's clearly being sarcastic being that there is no powder in sight.
Resolution

The end.

Well, that wasn't a good ending at all, was it? There was no resolution. The way a story ends often determines the impact it leaves with its readers.

As an author, you have to decide how your story will resolve.

Will it have a "gives you cold chills" finale? Ending in an exciting way?

Will it have a happy ending with your characters living happily ever after, all their most sparkly dreams fulfilled?

Or will it end in tragedy, with death, sadness, or utter despair?

However you choose to resolve your story, remember—it's the last thing your audience will read and probably the first thing they'll remember. Make it count.

Answer 14

Wouldn't the author here be characterizing the screams? I don't see how it's a tragic resolution, its not sarcasm or irony, and it's not making the setting.

Answer 15

This is FLVS English III, right? I took this test last week.

Answer 16

Could you explain it to me if I'm wrong? I don't see how I would be incorrect.

Answer 17

Awesome. @rebelbluebeetle You were correct the 2nd time.

Answer 18

I strongly believe that it's characterization, I don't see how it's a tragic resolution.

Answer 19

so it would be tragic resolution?

since fornato is the guy thats screaming because hes changed to a wall in a casket behind a newly built layer of brick walls and thats how he dies in the end?

Answer 20

chained*

Answer 21

I got a 100%. Here

Answer 22

Haha, yes.

Answer 23

thank you! you've made it so much clearer for me!

Answer 24

You're very welcome! :)

Answer 25

mind checking my other answers?

Answer 26

@MyNameIsNemo
I appreciate you're input as well. :)

Answer 27

And sure.

Answer 28

*your

Answer 29

thanks! gonna post it

Answer 30

Great.

Answer 31

"It must be understood that neither by word nor deed had I given Fortunato cause to doubt my good will."

Characterization

Irony/sarcasm

Setting

Tragic resolution

Answer 32

i chose irony/sarcasm

Answer 33

i know its not setting because it isnt describing the place

Answer 34

Good!

Answer 35

cant be tragic resolution because ...well nobody died yet XD

Answer 36

im right? *_*

Answer 37

Haha, yes. :)

Answer 38

thanks! ok next one.....

Answer 39

Okay

Answer 40

"I had told them that I should not return until the morning, and had given them explicit orders not to stir from the house. These orders were sufficient, I well knew, to insure their immediate disappearance, one and all, as soon as my back was turned."

Answer 41

i chose irony/sarcasm

Answer 42

because he told them he wouldnt be home all day knowing theyd leave

Answer 43

I believe so... That would be irony.

Answer 44

yay!~


"At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another less spacious. Its walls had been lined with human remains, piled to the vault overhead, in the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris. Three sides of this interior crypt were still ornamented in this manner."

a. Irony/sarcasm

b. Characterization

c. Tragic resolution

d. Setting

Answer 45

i chose setting

Answer 46

Great!

Answer 47

^~^

yay! one last question!~ :)

Answer 48

"The thousand injuries [insults] of Fortunato I had borne as I best could , but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge."

Answer 49

i chose characterization

Answer 50

I believe you're correct. :)

Answer 51

If I got any wrong, I'm super, super sorry...

Answer 52

its ok i'll send it now :3

Answer 53

@ericanoel912 i got an 80% :) thank you so much its much better than what i ot last time :)

Answer 54

Oh... :) okay! I'm glad. Next time, it'll be a 100%! @rebelbluebeetle

Answer 55

thank you so much! ^~^

Answer 56

i really apprecite it!~

Answer 57

You're very welcome!