1. what great weather we are having; thunder and lightning always make an outdoor pool party fun! what is the verbal irony in this statement? the thunder and lightning was unexpected but will make the party fun. we know thunder and lightning ruin a pool party but the speaker does not. thunder and lightning will ruin a pool party, so the weather really isn't "great." nice weather is characterized by thunder and lightning. 2. 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 word supports the meaning of decay? round colossal wreck bare