<span>The narrator explains that it's springtime, and because the weather is getting nice, a bunch of people are about to go on a pilgrimage from London to Canterbury. He then describes each person in the traveling group and tells a bit about them, so that we'll know who's who when the actual stories begin.
I hope my answer has come to your help. Have a nice day ahead and may God bless you always!
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Oxymoron<span> is a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect. </span>
The correct answer is “the cough's a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die of a cough.”. Taken from the short story “<em>The Cask of Amontillado</em>” by Edgar Allan Poe (1846), the part of the excerpt mentioned above that uses irony is the one that narrates the moment when Fortunato tells Montresor that he has a cold before going down into the catacombs, but Montresor <u>already knows how Fortunato's end will be</u>. <em>Irony </em>is a figure of speech through which words are used in a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning. The use of irony in this part of this excerpt can be spotted when Montresor replies, "<em>True —true.</em>" to Fortunato, since he knows it is <em>true that Fortunato shall not die of a cough</em>.
I believe it is the last one. it may be the second to last. sorry I haven't read the passage >~<
