After reading the Cask of Amontillado, you know that from the beginning that by the end of the story, Montresor will have killed Fortunato and he buries Fortunato with the rest of the dead. For 2, when Fortunato says "I drink to the buried that repose around us", it is dramatically ironic because the <u>reader</u> knows that eventually Fortunato will soon join the buried, which Fortunato is unaware of. We know it's not verbal irony because Fortunato doesn't really mean anything else from his statement.
