How is this passage ironic?

Think about the heroic characteristics and values you discovered in the myth "perseus." which heroic characteristics and values do you recognize in people who are considered heroic in today's world? explain.

Explain the effect of the rhetorical questions for the below paragraph. "i pinched myself: was i still alive? was i awake? how was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent? no. all this could not be real. a nightmare soon i would wake up with a start, my heart pounding, and find that i was back in the room of my childhood, with my "

In "the grateful stork," the old man is in a rush to get to town but stops to a trapped stork. what does this most likely tell the reader about the old man