🐇 bayonet charge quotes Flashcards
1
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- bayonet charge
- in media res
- deliberate repetition
- lack of humanity
A
‘Suddenly he awoke and was running - raw / In raw-seemed hot khaki’
2
Q
- bayonet charge
- brutal fistful of words
- plosives
- metaphor
- violent atmosphere
A
‘Bullets smacking his belly out of the air’
3
Q
- bayonet charge
- complex line
- soldiers begins to further question for him fighting
A
‘Listening between his footfalls for the reason / Of his still running’
4
Q
- bayonet charge
- animal
- personification
- violent connotations and dying
- innocence of the animal
A
‘Threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame / And crawled in a threshing circle, its mouth wide’
5
Q
- bayonet charge
- asyndetic listing
- list is not important and the tone is mocking
- criticises patriotic values
- human diginity means nothing when you’re in battle
- completely abandoned motivation to fight
A
‘King, honour, human dignity, etcertera / Dropped like luxurities in a yelling alarm’
