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

"I forced the last stone into its position; I plastered it up. Against the new masonry I re-erected the old rampart of bones. For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them."

3 answers

What are your choices? What is your answer?
the choices are characterization setting irony/sarcasm and tragic resolution
irony/ sarcasm