LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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“Amontillado! Quite impossible.”
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“No, my friend, no. I can see that you are not well. And the vaults are cold and wet.”
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“To your vaults. To taste the wine.”
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“And I, Fortunato-I drink to your long life.”
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Detailed explanation-1: -Sarcasm is when verbal irony is applied in a pointed way to emphasize something. For example, if person A touches person B’s hair, person A may say “I love when you do that.” If context tells us they mean the opposite, then we can say they were being verbally ironic.
Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: In The Cask of Amontillado, Poe uses verbal irony in the following exchanges: When Montresor meets Fortunato, he shakes his enemy’s hand and says: ‘My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met. ‘ For Fortunato, this is not good luck as he might assume.
Detailed explanation-3: -These are a few famous examples: “But Brutus says he was ambitious; / And Brutus is an honourable man.” Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. Mark Antony appears to praise Brutus and the other assassins, while in reality he is condemning them.
Detailed explanation-4: -Verbal irony is a figure of speech in which the literal meaning of what someone is saying is different from what they really mean. For example, someone saying “Just what I needed”, after spilling coffee on their shirt on the way to an important meeting.