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“The Cask of Amontillado” – Mood & Tone
After reading “The Story Behind ‘The Cask of Amontillado,’” answer the following questions.
List some of the changes that Poe made to the story when he wrote “The Cask of Amontillado.”
What about the fictional story is different from the true story?
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Why would Poe make these changes to the story?
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The changes that Poe made help to establish the mood and tone of the story. What are mood and
tone?
Mood: The feeling the reader gets from the text. The atmosphere created in the work.
Tone: How the author or narrator feels toward the characters or story. This can be conveyed
by the words that are chosen to be used in a story.
Fill in the chart with details of the mood and tone in different scenes in “The Cask of
Amontillado.”
Words used to
How does it feel to
How does the narrator
describe the place
you? What is the
feel? What is the
mood?
tone?
Carnival
Beginning of the
vaults
Back of the
catacombs
Ms. Quantz – 2009
Mood/Tone Assignment
Due: Monday, October 12, 2009
30 Points
To illustrate what you know about the mood and tone, draw and color a scene from “The Cask of
Amontillado” that is vivid in your mind. It may be the darkness of catacombs or the lights of the
carnival. Not everyone is an artist, but do the best you can. The goal is to show that you can
envision the mood and tone of the story.
Things to remember:
1. The setting of the scene you have chosen
2. Objects that Poe chose to describe
3. How the narrator describes everything in the story from people to objects
After you have finished your drawing, write an explanation of why you drew what you did. Why
did you use the colors that you chose? Why did you include certain objects? How do these
things help to represent the mood and tone of the story? A paragraph of six to eight sentences
will be sufficient for this part of the assignment.
Ms. Quantz – 2009