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Montresor's Hyperbole
The sentence that I saw that is an example of a hyperbole is "You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose,however, that gave utterance to a throat." This sentence makes me less sympathetic towards the murderer. I feel less sympathetic because he is showing a lot of hatred.

2. This means that a bad decision has been made and Montresor is going to help fix it. Montresor is trying to also to say that you should be punished if you did a wrong doing.

3. Montresor is an effective enemy to Fortunato because he is very friendly and kind to Fortunato. Fortunato seems to think they are friends but Montresor has a scheme that Fortunato would not expect. The Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland is like Montresor because when she first
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