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

"At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another less spacious. Its walls had been lined with human remains, piled to the vault overhead, in the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris. Three sides of this interior crypt were still ornamented in this manner."


Irony/sarcasm

Characterization

Tragic resolution

Setting