Ms.Landess
English Honors 9th (6)
Cask of Amontillado
In the short story, “The Cask of Amontillado”, written by Edgar Allan Poe, he uses dramatic, verbal, and situational irony throughout his story to create an unreliable narrator. A man who has plenty of knowledge of wine is being led to his death. The speaker of this story is displayed as unreliable because of the three types of irony used but, verbal irony is strongly used to make the speaker untrustworthy. One of the many examples that display verbal irony in the story is when Montresor meets Fortunato on the way to the carnival. Montresor says “My dear Fortunato, you are luckily met.” (Poe 1) This demonstrates verbal irony because Montresor is saying the opposite