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

"Come," I said, with decision, "we will go back; your health is precious. You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy, as once I was. You are a man to be missed. For me it is no matter. We will go back; you will be ill, and I cannot be responsible. Besides, there is Luchesi--" (4 points)

Question 3 options:

1) Setting

2) Characterization

3) Tragic resolution

4) Irony/sarcasm

Question

Select the choice which best identifies the given passage from "The Cask of Amontillado." 

"Come," I said, with decision, "we will go back; your health is precious. You are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy, as once I was. You are a man to be missed. For me it is no matter. We will go back; you will be ill, and I cannot be responsible. Besides, there is Luchesi--" (4 points)

Question 3 options:
	
1) 	Setting
	
2) 	Characterization
	
3) 	Tragic resolution
	
4) 	Irony/sarcasm

anonymous · Answer

I'm going with Characterization because it does very well describe the man he or she is talking about. Tragic resolution seems like the distraction answer, but bear in mind that it's only useful if the ending is tragic. In the end, the narrator is trying to prevent an ill fate, or so it seems