Exploring Beneath the Surface: Irony in Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" (Part Two)
Learn how to identify use of verbal and dramatic irony in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" in this interactive two-part tutorial. Students will also examine how Poe's use of irony with first person point of view affects the story. This tutorial is Part Two of a two-part series. In Part One, students read and analyzed the first two excerpts from the story. In Part Two, students will read and analyze the last three excerpts from the story.
Make sure to complete Part One first! Click HERE to complete Part One.
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Grade Level(s): 11, 12
Instructional Time: 35 Minute(s)
Keywords: Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado, verbal irony, dramatic irony, first person point of view, first person narrative, first person POV, point of view, narrator, English Language Arts, Montressor, Fortunato, interactive, tutorials, elearning, e-learning, fiction, ELA, short stories, dark humor, POV, American literature, literature, fiction, English, Language Arts, spooky stories
Resource Collection: Original Student Tutorials for Language Arts - Grades 6-12
Contributed by: Kris Ryan
Name of Author/Source: Kris Ryan, Diane Fettrow
Reading into Words with Multiple Meanings:
Explore Robert Frost's poem "Mending Wall" and examine words, phrases, and lines with multiple meanings. In this interactive tutorial, you'll analyze how these multiple meanings can affect a reader's interpretation of the poem.
Exploring Themes in Pride and Prejudice - Part Four:
Having studied two key topics in excerpts from the classic novel Pride and Prejudice in previous parts of this tutorial series, in Part Four you will use these topics and textual details from the novel to determine two themes of the novel. You will also analyze how these themes interact and build on one another.
Make sure to complete the previous parts of this series before beginning Part Four.
Exploring Themes in Pride and Prejudice - Part Three:
Continue to explore two key topics in the classic novel Pride and Prejudice and analyze characters' actions as they relate to these topics in Part Three of this four-part series. By the end of this series, you will use these topics and textual details to determine two themes of the novel. You will also analyze how these themes interact and build on one another.
Make sure to complete all four parts of the series!
Exploring Themes in Pride and Prejudice - Part Two:
Explore two key topics (first impressions and self-awareness) in the classic novel Pride and Prejudice and analyze characters' actions as they relate to these topics. This tutorial is Part Two in a four-part series. By the end of this tutorial series, you will use these topics and textual details to determine two themes of the novel. You will also analyze how these themes interact and build on one another.
Make sure to complete all four parts of the series.
Exploring Themes in Pride and Prejudice - Part One:
Explore two key topics in excerpts from Jane Austen's classic novel Pride and Prejudice and analyze characters' actions as they relate to these topics in Part One of this four-part interactive tutorial series. By the end of this series, you will use these topics and textual details to determine two themes of the novel and analyze how these themes interact and build on one another.
Click below to complete all four parts of the series.
Exploring Beneath the Surface: Irony in Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" (Part 1 of 2):
Learn how to identify use of verbal and dramatic irony in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" in this interactive two-part tutorial. You'll also examine how Poe's use of irony with first person point of view affects the story. You'll read and analyze the first two excerpts from the story in Part One, and the last three excerpts from the story in Part Two.
Be sure to complete Part One first. Click HERE to open Part Two.
Hurston and Hughes: Analyzing Topics and Themes (Part 1 of 2):
Learn about two significant writers of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neal Hurston and Langston Hughes. In this two-part tutorial series, you'll read excerpts of texts from each author. In Part One, you'll practice identifying topics and determining themes using Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. In Part Two, you'll read Hughes' poem "Freedom's Plow" to compare and contrast the authors' treatment of a similar topic and theme.
Click here to launch PART TWO.
What the Dead Can Teach Us:
Learn to analyze the use of irony to distinguish what is directly stated from what is really meant within the text. In this interactive tutorial, you'll examine humorous epitaphs from Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology. You'll learn to interpret an author's true feelings and intentions versus what is actually stated in the text.