Answer:
At the end of the story, <em>Monsters Are Due on Maple Street</em>, the aliens are having a conversation about how they are planning to take over the world, but are just using Maple Street as an experiment.
In "<em>The Importance of Being Earnest</em>" Oscar Wild uses irony to transmit a meaning that is opposite of its real meaning, specially situational and dramatic irony.
The play is a "<em>satire</em>", a genre intended to ridicule for the purpose of entertainment and very often to expose flaws in society.
So the use of meaningless dialogues is a common practice in the genre, and the repetition of the word absurd is an example of it, provoking an incoherent situation, to criticize the Victorian society of that time by ridiculing it.
Answer:
Figurative writing
Explanation:
if you are trying to figure out if it is a simile or a mediator, look to see if it used the words "like" or "as". If it does, it makes it a simile. If is doesn't, it makes it a metaphor.
For example:
"Life is like a box of chocolates" is a simile because it uses the word "like".
"Life is a box of chocolates" is a metaphor because it doesn't use the words "like" or "as".
So, the sentence you put is a metaphor, because it did not use the words like or as.
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