• "'Pass your hand,' I said, 'over the wall; you cannot help feeling the nitre. Indeed, it is very damp. Once more, let me implore you to return. No? Then I must positively leave you. But I must first render you all the little attentions in my power.'" (Page 3)

This quote shows a suspenseful mood because he chose to stay chained up, even when he was given a chance to return. He was given a chance to not die, but he chose to stay there.

• "A succession of loud and shrill screams, bursting suddenly from the throat of the chained form, seemed to thrust me violently back." (Page 4)

This quote shows a mood of horror because we were hearing the screams from Fortunato, and they were very loud. So loud it scared the narrator.

• "I had told them that I should not return until the morning, and had given them explicit orders not to stir from the house." (Page 2)

• "I said to him, 'My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met.' (Page 1)

• "'Fortunato!' No answer still." (Page 4)

• "'I drink, ' he said, 'to the buried that repose around us.'

  'And I to your long life.'" (Page 2)