Given the task definition and input, reply with output. 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.

[27, 296, 104, 39, 282, 65, 143, 278, 231, 149, 246, 176, 195, 179, 210, 68, 297, 233, 168, 248], k=8
231