Select the choice which best identifies the given passage from "the cask of amontillado." "we had passed through long walls of piled skeletons, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of the catacombs."
a. irony/sarcasm
b. setting
c. characterization
d. tragic resolution

B) Setting.

Explanation: The setting of a story or a text is the place and time where the story takes place, it can also be the context of the story (political, historical, cultural, etc). From the given options, the one that best identifies the given passage from "The Cask of Amontillado" is the corresponding to option B: Setting, because it is describing a place (specifically, the catacombs) "We had passed through long walls of piled skeletons, with casks and puncheons intermingling..."

the god   the goddess of salt water, of fresh water   yet more powerful and perfect.