Exposure

Question 1

A

Answer 1

Soldiers in the trenches of World War One waiting for combat. Dying despite never seeing any enemy. Their main enemy is the elements, imagining how their home no longer wants them.

Question 2

Mood

Answer 2

Melancholic, Helpless, hopeless, frustration, underlying bitterness at the waste of human life

Question 3

quotes for Helplessness and hopelessness

sibilance

Answer 3

“Our brains ached in the merciless iced east winds that knife us”

Question 4

quotes for frustration

refrain:
breaks iambic pentameter, short, stark
no progression

stasis the soldiers are in is worse than death

Answer 4

but nothing happens

Question 5

Ideas - waste of human lives

rhetorical question
perpetual theme

Answer 5

what are we doing here?

is it that we are dying

Question 6

Ideas - soldiers although alive, their existence is scarce to that of a living person

assonance - haunting sounds, they are no longer living
caesura - the door of return is closed

Answer 6

slowly our ghosts were dragged home.

Question 7

techniques

static words

personified ad malicious
alliteration

Answer 7

regular rhyme scheme regular form
(repetitive monotony that is killing them)

“clouds sag stormy
melancholy army”

Question 8

my response

Answer 8

the reality of war - personal loss
Criticise injustice of war 
range of the disempalmen
dehumanisation of man
conflict takes many forms within oneself
grim reality