Literary Elements

Setting
"On February 24, 1815, the watchtower at Marseilles signaled the arrival of the three-master Pharaon, coming from Smyrna, Trieste and Naples." ~pg 1

Imagery
"When Madame de Villefort pronounced this name, Nortier's eyelids fluttered like lips trying to speak and released a flash of lightning." ~pg 245

Flashback
"'I am the ghost of a wretched man you once buried in the dungeon of the Chateau d'If. When that ghost finally came out of its grave, God placed on it the mask of the Count of Monte Cristo and covered it with gold and diamonds so that you wouldn't recognize it until today.'" ~pg 485