And why did Montresor wait fifty years to tell the story?
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Laden with irony and foreshadowing,
Fortunato claims,"I will not die of a cough” and continues with Montresor.
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Montresor uses these motifs to his advantage as he lures Fortunato
to his death with a bottle of wine.
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Notice how Poe never tells the reader what it was that Fortunato did or
said, Montresor simply states that he was insulted.
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A prime example of verbal irony in"The Cask of Amontillado" is
when an unsuspecting Fortunato is being led to his death by his former acquaintance, Montresor.