Dulce Et Decorum Est Flashcards

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Tiredness has consumed the soldiers

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Drunk with fatigue

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Comparison to describe soldiers

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Bent double like old beggars under sacks

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Dialogue

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Gas! Gas! Quick boys!

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Imagery to describe the setting and death

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As under a green sea I saw him drowning

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Describing his frightful experience

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He plunges at me guttering, choking, drowning

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Describing the death around him

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If you could hear, at every jolt the blood come gargling from the froth corrupted lungs”

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Shows he’s against war

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The old lie: dulce et decorum est pro patria mori

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