*As the house falls apart, thefamily also falls apart.*With the death of the siblings,the house finally falls.
When the narrator says this, he is describing the siblings overall mental wealth being to the house, so when their mental health worsens, the house falls apart.
Symbolism
"I looked upon the scene before me--upon the mere house, and thesimple landscape features of thedomain --upon the bleak walls --upon the vacant eye-like windows --upon a few rank sedges --and upona few white trunks of decayed trees"
The subtle elements to describe the outside in very descriptive word shows signs of imagery.
Imagery
The alliteration found here is in dark, dull, day, and dreary.
"During the whole dull, dark, soundless day in the autumn of the year, I had been passing alone on a dreary tract of land."
Alliteration
"I drink to the buried that pose around us"
"And, I to your long life."
This is dramatic irony because montresor says he wants to celebrate fortunates long life even though he wanted to kill him.
Dramatic irony
Foreshawdows
This foreshadows just because of the fact that Fortunato was right about montresor and warned him about his cough, and he would not die of simply a cough, but something much worse along with that.
“Enough, the cough’s a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die of a cough”
“evil things in robes of sorrow”
This is a metaphor by saying that the evil things they face come I "robes of sorrow" so a large amount. And Rodrick sings in a happy state of mind during the saying.
Metaphor
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