We’ve got standards

1. We’ve got standards ELACC8RL3: Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of character, or provoke a decision. ELACC8RL4: …analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone.

2. ELACC8RL6: Analyze how differences in the points of view of characters and the audience or reader (e.g., created through dramatic irony) create such effects as suspense or humor.

4. Setting • An underground catacomb, somewhere in Italy, during the carnival season • The setting in “The Cask,” and in most Horror or Gothic Fiction, has a special purpose: to suggest freedom or confinement, in harmony or opposition to the freedom or confinement of the characters.

5. Irony Dramatic Irony- • Dramatic irony occurs when there is miscommunication in a book, play or film and the audience is smarter (knows more) than the characters.

6. Situational Irony- This type of irony may occur when the outcome of a certain situation is completely different than what was initially expected. It is often referred to as an “irony of events.”

7. The Cask of Amontillado -The story is rich with irony -Identify examples of dramatic and situational

8. CarnivalTradition dating back to 1300s

9. Origins of Carnival Carnival originated as a pagan festival in ancient Egypt which was subsequently celebrated by the Greeks and then the Romans. The popular festival was adopted by the Roman Catholic Christian church in Europe as the festival of Carne Vale. The Carnival festival was transported to the Caribbean by the European slave traders. They excluded the African slaves from the festival and had lavish masquerade balls. On emancipation the freed African slaves of the Caribbean transformed the European festival forever into a celebration of the end of slavery.

10. Let’s analyze… • Answer the study guide questions with your border state partner and be prepared to discuss at the end of class.