Bayonet Charge Flashcards

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‘Suddenly he awoke and was running - raw’

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  • Media-res, frantic and disorientated, reader is confused which mimics feelings of soldier, not prepared to kill doesn’t know why he’s fighting, unnatural
  • ‘awoke,’ almost like he was hibernating, suggests unnatural
  • Could be that he was awoken from patriotic thoughts
  • ‘raw,’ vulnerable, inexperienced/unprepared, painfully exposed, contrasts the belief that war is all organised
  • homophone, sounds of war
  • repetition shows difficulty in expressing the moment of stress, links to the idea war is indescribable, allusion to Wilfred Owen poem
  • Dash, reflective of his need to pause and compose himself
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‘King, honour, human dignity, etcetera
Dropped like luxuries’

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  • Asyndetic listing
  • Simile is part of the overall use of similes to show how the war is indescribable
  • The list undermines the reasons for fighting
  • ‘Etcetera’ mocks his past views
  • ‘Luxuries’ shows these values cannot be afforded, they can only focus on survival
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