charge of the light brigade

Question 1

author

Answer 1

lord alfred tennyson

Question 2

context

Answer 2

glorying and celebrating the efforts of the english soldiers in the 1853-1856 crimean war against the russian forces

exposing the unfortunate misunderstanding which meant that the LB were ordered to advance into a valley surround by enemy forces

Question 3

quotation: wondering

Answer 3

all the world wonder’d

dual meaning: marvelling at their bravery, inspiring to be like them

or

people wondered why they were sent into the inevitable death

Question 4

quotation: cannons

Answer 4

cannon to the left of them (repetition)

reflects how the the soldiers are surrounded by the enemys guns and replicates the sounds of gunfire

which exaggerates the merciless characteristics of warfare and how its suffocates the soldiers/always being there

Question 5

structure: third person

Answer 5

presenting it to seem like a story adding a more lighthearted approach which glorifies war and celebrates the bravery of the soldiers

Question 6

structure: regular rhythm

Answer 6

creates a fast pace reflecting the horses movement and the cavalrys advance and the upbeat pace of the battle

rhyming couplets and triplets “shell” and “hell” drive the poem forward representing the cavalrys drive

Question 7

structure: break of momentum

Answer 7

author breaks momentum by unrhymed lines which mirrors the horses stumbling and overall lack of rhyme hints at the chaos of war

Question 8

structure: sibilance

Answer 8

violent sounds to connote brutality of warfare

sibilance “sabre” “stroke” “sunder’d” gives a strong sense of the violence of the battle

creates a noisy, hellish setting and emphasises how inhumane war is