mention the poetic devices used in the chapter the tiger king. .and also mention where is irony used

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Poetic devices like alliteration, onomatopoeia, refrain, simile, etc. are usually found in poems.
There are certain elements like irony, satire, etc., which can be found in fictional stories. In the text named Tiger King, irony, satire, humour and exaggeration can be found:

The story is a satire on the conceit of those in power. The king is known to be an extremely conceited person right from the beginning. As a ten-day-old infant, he pronounced the words, “Let tigers beware!” By challenging the astrologer’s prediction, he also challenges his death. Moreover, killing seventy tigers within a period of ten years and bringing the entire species close to extinction, marrying for the convenience of killing more tigers, exercising his authority to punish or tax people according to his whims and fancies, flaunting his power and richness in sending about fifty rings to the British officer’s lady or paying a bill of three lakh rupees, having a temper that would make other people lose their job or even life etc., are all part of this conceit. He does nothing for the sake of his people in the capacity of a king. All this has been highlighted in the story using humour, irony and exaggeration.

The Tiger King's death was ironical. On the birthday of the crown prince, the king bought a tiny little wooden tiger for his son. It had been carved by an unskilled carpenter. Its surface was rough, tiny slivers of wood stood up like quills all over it. One of those slivers pierced the Maharaja's right hand. He pulled it out with his left hand and continued to play with the prince. Next day, the infection flared in the Maharaja's right hand and in four days he developed a suppurating sore which spread all over the arm. Three famous surgeons were brought in from Madras. They decide to operate after a consultation. The three surgeons who performed the operation came out of the theatre and announced that the operation had been successful but the Maharaja was dead. It was the manner in which the hundredth tiger took its final revenge upon the Tiger King. However, the hundredth tiger was made out of wood.
 
The Maharaja vowed that he would attend to all other state matters only after killing the hundred tigers. It was so because an astrologer had predicted the Maharaja's death by the hundredth tiger. However, the king wanted to prove the astrologer's predictions wrong and hence, he set out on a hunting spree, neglecting all his duties until he had killed a hundred tigers and thus, defeated death. He never paid attention to his wife as well, in fact he had married her for the sake of killing more tigers from her province. The Tiger King's obsession has been exaggerated in the story.

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