Question

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I MET a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert ... Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage [face] lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which still survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. Which of the following sentences best describes the dramatic irony in the poem?

A The traveler knows he will see the statue in the desert.
B The traveler knows who the king was.
C The audience knows the traveler has seen the statue in the desert.
D The audience knows the boastful king's power did not last.

Answer 1

D. The audience knows the boastful king's power did not last.

Step-by-step explanation:

Irony is a figure of speech used in literature that will ridicule some situation or person, it shows the contradiction of things. It can be used by choosing a word that express exactly the opposite of its means. The dramatic irony in the poem is the words that appear in the pedestal "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" but yet nothing was beside the pedestal but only the sand, a desert.