Question

Which of the excerpts below is an example of foreshadowing?

How remarkably well you are looking to-day. But I have received a pipe of what passes for Amontillado…

"I have my doubts," I replied; "and I was silly enough to pay the full Amontillado price without consulting you in the matter.

There were no attendants at home; they had absconded to make merry in honour of the time. I had told them that I should not return until the morning, and had given them explicit orders not to stir from the house.

I broke and reached him a flagon of De Grave. He emptied it at a breath. His eyes flashed with a fierce light. He laughed and threw the bottle upwards with a gesticulation I did not understand.

Answer 1

There were no attendants at home; they had absconded to make merry in honour of the time. I had told them that I should not return until the morning, and had given them explicit orders not to stir from the house.

Answer 2

The answer is: There were no attendants at home; they had absconded to make merry in honour of the time. I had told them that I should not return until the morning, and had given them explicit orders not to stir from the house