Charge Of The Light Brigade

Question 1

Who wrote charge of the light brigade

Answer 1

Alfred Tennyson

Question 2

Form

Answer 2

Third person.
Regular, relentless rhythm creates a fast pace imitating the cavalry advancing
Rhyming couplets and triplets drives the poem forwards , but is stopped by the unrhymed lines which could mirror the horses stumbling and soldiers falling

Question 3

Stucture

Answer 3

Chronological order from the charge of the men in the first three stanzas to the battle and the retreat in the fifth. Final stanza is shorter nd summarises the heroism of the brigade

Question 4

Language

Answer 4

Repetition creates a sense of impending doom and inevitability

Question 5

Quote

Answer 5

Mouth of hell
Jaws of death
Shot and shell
Rode the six hundred

Question 6

Quote

Answer 6

All the world wondered - where they wondering about the bravery of the soldiers or the mistakes of military leaders

Question 7

Quotes

Answer 7

Not the six hundred

Question 8

Quote

Answer 8

Horse and hero fell / they that had fought so well

Question 9

Quote

Answer 9

Honour - left the reader to think to honour the cavalry