Charge Of The Light Brigade

Question 1

“Half a league, half a league,
Half a league o word,
All in the valley of death”

Answer 1

Dactyl - emphasis of the first syllable can be seen as a rhythmic tone like a song which shows the heroic sacrifice of the Loughton brigade

Anaphora - repetition start if line, recreates the sound of the charge

Allusion - the allusion to the bible and gives the poem a justification of charging to kill the people, but god is on our side, soles of dead soldiers accepted into heaven by god, Christian perspective god is on our side

Question 2

“Theirs but to do and die”.

Answer 2

This shows there is no escape

Question 3

Who is the writer

Answer 3

Alfred Tennyson

Question 4

Form -

Answer 4

Narrated in third person , making it seem like a story
The regular relentless rhythm creates a fast paced , initiating the cavalry’s advance and the energy if the battle. Rhyming couplets and triplets drive the Poem forward but the momentum is broke. Down by unrhymed Lisa which could mirror the horses and soldiers falling in battle , the overall lack of a ryhym scheme hints the chias of war

Question 5

Structure

Answer 5

poem tells the story of the battle in chronological order, from the charge
of the men in the first three stanzas, to the battle in the fourth and the retreat in the fifth.
The final stanza is shorter and summarises the heroism of the brigade.

Question 6

Repetition

Answer 6

Repetition creates a sense of impending doom and inevitability. Repetition of
“six hundred” at the end of each stanza reinforces the idea of the large numbers of men involved, with the references to them summarising the story of the battle.

Question 7

Heroic language

Answer 7

Adverbs like “Boldly” and verbs like “Charging” emphasise the men’s bravery.
Respectful language shows how the narrator feels the soldiers should be remembered.

Question 8

Violent language

Answer 8

The narrator chooses powerful verbs and adjectives to give a strong
sense of the violence of the battle, and uses sounds to create a vivid, noisy, hellish setting.

Question 9

Honour the charge they made!
Honour the light brigade
Noble six hundred !

Answer 9

The command is repeated to ,save the reader with the idea that they should honour the caverly

Question 10

Alfred Tennyson

Answer 10

Was a poet laureate of the Victorian era