name the figure of speech used in the following line from poem ozymandias
" of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare"

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Solution

The peotic device used in this line is paradox. A paradox is a combination of two contradictory statements that are true. Here, colossal means something that elicits awe, but then at the same time the poet calls it a wreck. This is a paradox.

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