Read the passage: half sunk, a shatter’d visage lies, whose frown and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command identify the pun in the passage. a) the traveler is not telling the truth about what he saw. b) the statue “lies” in pieces and also “lies” about who ozymandias really was. c) the statue “lies” in ruins. d) the words on the statue will tell a “lie”.

postive, comparative, superlative - good, better, best

recall how we defined nouns as words capable of having plurals and possessive endings. adjectives (and their first cousin, the adverb) also have a feature that distinguishes them. they come in three states. first, the raw adjective—in its positive state—merely describes the noun modified; it doesn’t care about how this particular person or thing stacks up against other members of the same noun class

to inform the reader that the text will take a second look at the grimms’ original tales