Multiple choice question:

Select the choice which best identifies the given passage from "The Cask of Amontillado."

"I forced the last stone into its position; I plastered it up. Against the new masonry I re-erected the old rampart of bones. For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them."

Irony/sarcasm

Setting

Characterization

Tragic resolution

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Deandre Mahoney

12 June, 14:23

Multiple choice question:

Select the choice which best identifies the given passage from "The Cask of Amontillado."

"I forced the last stone into its position; I plastered it up. Against the new masonry I re-erected the old rampart of bones. For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them."

Irony/sarcasm

Setting

Characterization

Tragic resolution

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Marely Lee · Answer 1

This is a tragic resolution

The setting was described much earlier, and there's nothing sarcastic here. Characterization was already done, and this is slowly the end of the story.