Question

Select the choice which best identifies the given passage from "The Cask of Amontillado." "We had passed through long walls of piled skeletons, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of the catacombs."
A. Irony/sarcasm
B. Setting
C. Characterization
D. Tragic resolution

Answer 1

Answer: B) Setting.

Explanation: The setting of a story or a text is the place and time where the story takes place, it can also be the context of the story (political, historical, cultural, etc). From the given options, the one that best identifies the given passage from "The Cask of Amontillado" is the corresponding to option B: Setting, because it is describing a place (specifically, the catacombs) "We had passed through long walls of piled skeletons, with casks and puncheons intermingling..."

Answer 2

I believe the answer would be setting cause its describing what the character is seeing around them