Which excerpt from "the cask of amontillado" best illustrates the sarcastic tone of the narrator?
1"come," i said, with decision, "we will go back; your health is precious. you are rich, respected, admired, beloved; you are happy, as once i was. you are a man to be missed. for me it is no matter.
2in an instant he had reached the extremity of the niche, and finding his progress arrested by the rock, stood stupidly bewildered.
3 a moment more and i had fettered him to the granite. "let us go, nevertheless. 4the cold is merely nothing. amontillado! you have been imposed upon. and as for luchresi, he cannot distinguish sherry from amontillado." in painting and gemmary, fortunato, like his countrymen, was a quack, but in the matter of old wines he was sincere.

What does cole think are the ingredients of his “cake”?

Which word is the comparative form? hyper best less most fruitful

Read the excerpt from part 2 of zeitoun. zeitoun woke with the sun and crawled out of his tent. the day was bright, and as far as he could see in any direction the city was underwater. . he could only think of judgment day, of noah and forty days of rain. and yet it was so quiet, so still. nothing moved. he sat on the roof and scanned the horizon, looking for any person, any animal or machine moving. nothing. as he did his morning prayers, a helicopter broke the silence, shooting across the treetops and heading downtown. why does the author include the details of zeitoun’s morning? to suggest the hopelessness of zeitoun’s situation to illustrate the solitary existence endured by survivors to establish zeitoun’s dedication to the rituals of his faith to reveal the military’s attempts at assistance