Charge Of The Light Brigade Flashcards
Give an example of juxtaposition within stanza 4
“Sabring the gunners there”
“Volley’d and thunder’d” is an example of what?
Semantic field
Name an example of repetition in the first stanza
“Half a league, half a league, half a league, onward”
They rode back, but not
Not the six hundred
What is this an example of?
A Caesura
Why does Tennyson repeat “six hundred” and “honour” throughout the poem?
He wants us to honour and remember the light brigade
There are six stanzas in charge of the light brigade, what could this mean?
Every stanza represents 100 soldiers that fought
Describe the rhythm throughout the poem
Is regular throughout. At stanza four when conflict happens, the rhythm breaks meaning the battle is chaotic
Charge of the light brigade was written by Alfred lord tennyson, what was his job
Poet laureate, worked for royal family
What is enjambment?
When a sentence runs over multiple lines of poetry
