You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
In this task, you are given a list of integers and an integer k. You need to find the kth largest element in the input list.

[131, 90, 23, 99, 217, 102, 71, 34, 248, 252, 270, 81, 127, 284, 273, 256, 42, 283, 242, 169], k=5
Output:
256