Bayonet Charge Flashcards

Quotes

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‘Bullets smacking the belly out of the air’

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Similar to kamikaze - Personification shows how nature is being destroyed by conflict

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‘Patriotic tear’

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The patriotism/indoctrination is slowly becoming painful and sombre

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‘Sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest’

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Simile suggest that he is becoming similar to a robot of war

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‘in what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations’

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Similar to prologue of R&J which suggests that conflict was inevitable

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‘Threw up a yellow hard that rolled like a flame’

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Violent imagery of suffering demonstrates the extent of conflict

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‘King, honour, human dignity’

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Listing of what is ‘important’ - notice the sequencing of king before personal dignity

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‘His terror’s touchy dynamite’

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He has become a pillar of war- a machine of destruction.

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