This question is based on Literary Principles.
‘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. From the fourth the bones had been thrown down , and lay promiscuously upon the earth, forming at one point a mound of some size’,
E. Pope, ‘Cask of Amontillado’
In the passage above, the author evokes the atmosphere of
- cannibalism
- monstrosity
- evil
-
doom
The correct answer is: D
Explanation
The description of the crypt, with its walls lined with human remains and bones scattered promiscuously on the earth, creates a sense of impending doom and foreboding.