Cask of Amontillado Literary Terms and Vocab

exemption from punishment or freedom from the injurious consequences of an action.

• Retribution

• Impunity

• Immolation

• Motley

a small handheld tool with a flat, pointed blade, used to apply and spread mortar or plaster.

• Trowel

• Niter

• Fettered

• Palazzo

beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something.

• Impunity

• Retribution

• Endeavored

• Implore

a palatial building, especially in Italy.

• Palazzo

• Flambeaux

• Absconded

• Catacombs

an underground cemetery consisting of a subterranean gallery with recesses for tombs, as constructed by the ancient Romans.

• Palazzo

• Catacomb

• Leer

• Niter

look or gaze in an unpleasant, malicious, or lascivious way.

• Leer

• Absconded

• Niter

• Immolation

kill or offer as a sacrifice, especially by burning.

• Endeavored

• Absconded

• Implore

• Immolation

punishment inflicted on someone as vengeance for a wrong or criminal act.

• Fettered

• Leer

• Retribution

• Immolation

an expert judge in matters of taste.

• Connoisseurship

• Retribution

• Catacombs

• Flambeaux

a flaming torch, especially one made of several thick wicks dipped in wax.

• Implore

• Trowel

• Nitter

• Flambeaux