Exposure

Question 1

Form

Answer 1

Present tense, first person plural, a collective voice that invokes reader connection
Regular ABBAC rhyme scheme. Monotonous, with half-rhymes to offer no satisfaction
Each stanza ends with a half line, a gap of activity or hope

Question 2

Structure

Answer 2

8 stanzas, no progression. “Nothing happens”. Monotonous similarity between endings of stanzas

Question 3

Quote to show criticism of war

Answer 3

“What are we doing here”

Owen’s first-hand experience of war, futile, pointless, he believed it to be a waste of life

Question 4

Quote to show suffering

Answer 4

“Merciless iced east winds that knive us”
Personification of nature, the real enemy
Irony of the weather being more dangerous than the enemy

Question 5

Quote to show loss

Answer 5

“All their eyes are ice” Eyes of the living and the dead are empty - life is futile in war, hope and soul alike are lost

Question 6

“But nothing happens”

Answer 6

Ironic (It’s a war)

Zoom on “nothing” (hyperbole)