They are describing colonel pickering from pygmalion, a play by george bernard shaw.
He was actually horrified by them using gunpowder and even tells gulliver to not mention it to him again
1. All media are constructs, is false. Not all media is constructs, and they’re created for a myriad of different purposes.
Building a fire is an act of technical skill and technology, and fire in literature has also often been used as a symbol of knowledge. The building of a fire thus symbolizes life in the story, but also life through human knowledge, skill, and technology.
Paz uses all of the following literary devices except:
metaphor
repetition
simile
imagery
The correct answer is simile because there is no "like"or "as" used in the poem.