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The Cask of Amontillado

• Edgar Allen Poe

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What is Amontillado?

• Sherry or a type of wine
• Why would a story be named after an alcoholic
  beverage?

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The Setting Catacombs

• Catacombs are underground tunnels or rooms dug
  out as tombs or sometimes used for religious
  worship.
• From www.m-w.com
• 1 a subterranean cemetery of galleries with
  recesses for tombs usually used in plural
• 2 something resembling a catacomb as an
  underground passageway or group of passageways

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Who are masons?

• From www.m-w.com
• Definition of
• 1 a skilled worker who builds by laying units of
  substantial material (as stone or brick)