Dulce et Decorum Est Flashcards
1
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“like old beggars” “coughing like hags”
A
Similes
2
Q
“Gas! Gas! Quick, boys!”
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Shouting, desperate, boys=young
3
Q
“An ecstasy of fumbling”
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Fear, panic
4
Q
“green sea”
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Metaphor for the gas
5
Q
“guttering, choking, drowning”
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Rule of three, description of the sounds
6
Q
“you”
A
Pronoun, directly aimed at the reader
7
Q
“obscene as cancer”
A
Powerful simile, unfair, not right
8
Q
“The old lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori”
A
It is sweet and noble/fit and honourable to die for your country, doesn’t think it’s right, not honourable, its all a lie, addresses the propaganda at the time
9
Q
Compare to?
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Any war poem
