Exposure

Question 1

Who was exposure written by?

Answer 1

Ted Hughes

Question 2

Describe the context of exposure

Hint: 👨💣😰
Hint: 📕-> 😰
Hint: 💣-> 👶

Answer 2

• Father fought in WW1 (Gallipoli campaign) and experienced trauma
• Wrote poems to show Dads trauma and the lives that were impacted
• Grew up post war and was a child in WW2

Question 3

Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knife us

What is this an example of?

Answer 3

Personification

Question 4

“Wearied we keep awake because the night is silent”

What sound does the W make?

Answer 4

Wind

Question 5

Worried by silence sentries whisper, curious, nervous”

What is the repetitive S sound called?

Answer 5

Siblance

Question 6

“Like twitching agonies of men amongst its brambles”

What device is used here with the brambles? What imagery does this create?

Answer 6

Metaphor

Screaming men

Question 7

“Dawn _____ in the east her _____ army. Attacks in ____ on shivering ____ of grey

Fill in the blank

Answer 7

Massing
Melancholy
Ranks
Ranks

Question 8

What is an oxymoron?

Find an example of this in exposure
Hint: 🖤🌨️

Answer 8

Two things that impossible

Black with snow

Question 9

“Slowly our ghosts drag home, glimpsing the sink fires, glozed with crusted dark- red jewels, crickets jingle there”

“Shutters and doors all closed: on us the doors are closed. We turn back to our dying”

What does this quote saying?

Answer 9

Metaphor of jewels making home desirable

PTSD - feeling they can’t return
Not wanted, ignored

Question 10

What is an example of repetition throughout the poem?

Answer 10

“But nothing happens”

Question 11

Describe the rhyme scheme

Answer 11

(ABBCD)
Regular, shows boredom and that nothing happens in war