Passage: beyond them, and around us on every side, were the great himalayas, stretching away through nepal and tibet. for the closer peaks—giants like lhotse, nuptse and makalu—you now had to look sharply downward to see their summits. and farther away, the whole sweep of the greatest range on earth—even kanchenjunga itself—seemed only like little bumps under the spreading sky. it was such a sight as i had never seen before and would never see again: wild, wonderful and terrible. but terror was not what i felt. i loved the mountains too well for that. i loved everest too well. at that great moment for which i had waited all my life my mountain did not seem to me a lifeless thing of rock and ice, but warm and friendly and living. she was a mother hen, and the other mountains were chicks under her wings. i too, i felt, had only to spread my own wings to cover and shelter the brood that i loved.
3. how is paradox used in this passage? identify and explain it.
5.how is irony used in this passage? identify and explain it.
4. what effect does using these literary techniques have on the passage? explain.
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