The bolded passage is the rising action.
In a narrative, the rising action is the event, or series of incidents, which come directly after the exposition and before the climax. Its purpose is to set up suspense in the plot (in this fable, you can sense the tension in phrases like "he seized it with his paw and was about to kill it"). It is usually composed of character decisions and personality traits (here, the mouse's cunning and the lion's arrogance).
An event in a story that's exactly the reverse of what was expected to happen is an example of situational irony. Since the event is a situation and irony means "the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous effect or empathetic effect".
Definition of irony from google.
I have a dream that one day, my mother will be more open minded about things instead of sticking to her own views.
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The prisoner is shot because the act of shooting a prisoner is near instantaneous. The action has no duration that would justify the use of the present participle, unless it were an order that had been given and were still to be carried out. Bombing raids over the third reich could go on for hours at a time and be carried on over consecutive nights, so the factories are being bombed. Think of it like this, the decision to shoot the prisoner could be taken, the order given and carried out - and even the mess probably cleaned up - but still during all this while the factories could quite feasibly have been being bombed, continuously, and without respite. Eventually the factories would either cease to exist altogether, or the bombing would cease and the shell-like structures would have simply been bombed.
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