One of the examples showing that it is the retelling of the Sphinx myth like heroes in both the stories have to answer the riddle correctly to continue with their quests.
<u>Explanation:</u>
The grey king is one of the contemporary fantasies novels which has been written by Susan Cooper. This was published in the year 1975.
In this novel, the grey king who is also known as the Brenin Llwyd is the evil lord who is opposing the light. The king is known as the strongest, most powerful and the oldest of the lords of the dark. But despite all these powers, he has some limitations like he can not break the laws of the high magic.
Answer:
The narrator repeats these lines in the poem to let the reader know that they are specifically referring to you as it says 'your' which is you, the reader.
Irony has been used in the story where humans are compared with the animals and animals are said to have activities and characteristics like that of the humans.
<u>Explanation:</u>
Mark Twain wrote the story "The lowest animal". The style of writing this story is satirical and irony had been used in the writing of this story by Mark Twain. The tone of this story is negative.
In this story Mark Twain had compared the animals with the humans and humanity and the humans have been looked down with an experiment to compare them with the animals.