Example SS Review

In "The Cask of Amontillado," which quote from the story best exemplifies the use of dramatic irony when Montresor tricks Fortunato into venturing into the catacombs?

• "The Amontillado!" ejaculated my friend, not yet recovered from his astonishment.

• "Pass your hand," I said, "over the wall; you cannot help feeling the nitre."

• "A draught of this Medoc will defend us from the damps."

• "Ha! ha! ha! -he! he! he! -he! he! he! -he! he! he! -he! he! he!"

In "The Scarlet Ibis," which quote from the text best exemplifies the symbolism of the Scarlet Ibis in relation to Doodle?

• "The last graveyard flowers were blooming, and their smell drifted across the cotton field and through every room of our house, speaking softy the names of our dead."

• "He seemed all head, with a tiny body that was red and shriveled like an old man's."

• "Doodle! Doodle!"

• "He had been bleeding from the mouth, and his neck and the front of his shirt were stained a brilliant red."

In "The Necklace," which quote from the text provides indirect characterization for the main character, Mathilde Loisel?

• "She was unhappy all the time and longed for something else, something better, something richer."

• "She had no dresses, no jewels, nothing. And she loved nothing but that; she felt made for it."

• "She was one of those pretty and charming girls born, as though fate had blundered over her."

• "She was simple since she could not be adorned; but she was unhappy as though kept out of her own class."