Provide at least two examples of foreshadowing from the story and indicate what each example foreshadows.

Foreshadowing is a literary technique
used to build suspense in a story by way of hints or clues that suggest what will happen
next in the story.

Two examples of foreshadowing in "The
Cask of Amontillado" and what the examples are hinting
at:

1. Fortunato states, "I shall not die of a cough."
Montresor responds, "True," and by doing so he allows the reader to suspect that there
is another more devious, sinister plan in the making. Montresor knows Fortunato will die
from starvation in the crypt.

2. During the conversation
involving the Masonic order, Montresor defends the fact that he is a member of the
Masons but when he lifts his trowel the reader wonders if he means he is literally a
stonemason. Indeed Montresor will build Fortunato's grave from stones by the close of
the story.

"The Cask of Amontillado" is a dark horror story
written in classic Edgar Allan Poe style.