Answer: Moshoeshoe was the first chief and founder of Sotho, a nation in Southern Africa. The people who lived there were called Basutos, and he ended up leading them against armies like the British using diplomacy. He began to raise followers in other tribes because of the success he had with the military. He ended up negotiating peace with a border to separate parts of the land called orange free state. In the mid 1800's, Moshoeshoe won against fighting off Boers, and gained as well as lost land. He ended up asking the british for help, but for a price. Some of his people's land. They agreed, and the land is today called Lesotho.
If you're asking for main idea, the main idea or thesis statement sentence is sentence 1, where they explain what the passage is about.
The poem "The Cat and The Moon" was originally written by Yeats as part of a play, first produced in 1917. The first two quatrains of the poem open the play, the second two quatrains appear a short while later, and the final three quatrains end the play. The play is not about a romance at all, but about two beggars, one blind and one lame, who have been travelling together for forty years, depending...
The word "felicity" here means a sense of satisfaction, almost catharsis, as the speaker has found closure in his prayer and happiness.
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.
