In poetry and literature, irony is used as a rhetorical or literary technique to elaborate on what something appears to be on the surface in contrast to what it actually is. In the text, situational irony is used when the traveller speaks of the king's words engraved on the pedestal. Ozymandias, the king, is proud of his amazing works and of all he constructed in his lifetime, believing that would make him mighty for all time. However, nothing remains around the pedestal; the desert's sands have engulfed all of his colossal works. Therefore, it is the contradiction between what is boasted (that is, the amazing constructions) versus what is actually there (a large stretch of sand and decay) that constitutes the irony in the passage.
Threatens to eliminate more sophisticated language.
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Metaphors are the figures of speech in which a word or a phrase is applied to an object or to an action which to which it is not literally applicable. A comparison is done with the use of metaphor in which there is direct comparison of one thing with the other.
In this case also, the metaphor used endangered hatchlings is used to make a comparison with the sophisticated language which is nowhere related to the word itself.
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Some common synonyms of satire are humor, irony, repartee, sarcasm, and wit.
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Meiosis is half the cells mitosis has, and meiosis is for sexual reproduction, and it also has diversity.
