Select the choice which best identifies the given passage from "the cask of amontillado."

"a succession of loud and shrill screams, bursting suddenly from the throat of the chained form, seemed to thrust me violently back."

a. tragic resolution
b. irony/sarcasm
c. setting
d. characterization

Based on the information in the passage, what conclusion can the reader make?

What is implied in this sentence from mark twain's "the ? 1,000,000 bank-note"? i was puzzled, and wanted to discuss the matter a little further, but they didn't; so i took my leave, feeling hurt and insulted to be made the butt of what was apparently some kind of a practical joke, and yet obliged to put up with it, not being in circumstances to resent affronts from rich and strong folk.

At one point in the memoir, the ship strikes a rock and begins to leak. how does diaz del castillo solve this problem? by tossing the fresh water overboard. by forcing the crew to pump out the water flooding by calling for to a portuguese diver. by praying to the almighty.