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- To make a connection between American society’s desire for equality and its fears of conformity.
- To exaggerate the absurdity of the American vision of a utopian society in which everyone is equal.
- To warn citizens of the dangers of government control through an imagined, futuristic society.
Harrison Bergeron is a satirical, dystopian science-fiction short story. It was written by American author Kurt Vonnegut and published in 1961. The story talks about a society in which the government regulates that everyone should be equal in beauty, brains and physical capacity. This forces the population to wear "handicaps." The satire warns against government control while criticizing society's obsessive quest for equality.
B. is the correct sentence, because they use the correct verb tense of notices.
Answer:
b Cold command
Explanation:
Percy Bysshe Shelley's (1792–1822) poem "Ozymandias" is as a whole situational and verbal irony. Cold command is situational irony that because of the king's statue present condition or situation, it is in no position to give a command. The reader too does not expect any command from a half-sunk statue with a shattered visage and trunkless legs. The statue's condition described before and after this phrase makes it clear that king and his kingdom is ruined so he cannot command.
Situational Irony is a literary device in which something happens that is very different from what is normally expected.
Irony is a literary device in which some thing said or happened is opposite to what is expected.
