Exposure Flashcards
What literary device is employed in the phrase ‘merciless iced east winds that knife us’?
Personification
This phrase personifies the winds, attributing them with a merciless and violent nature.
What does the phrase ‘Dawn masking … her melancholy army’ suggest?
Nature’s duality
The phrase conveys how dawn can symbolize both hope and sadness, as it hides the grim realities of war.
In the line ‘Pale Flakes with fingering stealth come feeling our faces’, what does ‘pale flakes’ refer to?
Snow
The ‘pale flakes’ are likely snowflakes, portraying a cold and desolate environment.
What imagery is created by ‘Shutters and doors ail closed: on us the doors are closed’?
Isolation
This imagery evokes a sense of confinement and separation from the outside world.
What does ‘All their eyes are ice / but nothing happens’ imply about the soldiers?
Emotional numbness
The phrase suggests that the soldiers have become emotionally detached or frozen in their experiences.
Fill in the blank: ‘Our brains ache, in the _______ iced east winds that knife us.’
merciless
True or False: The poem ‘Exposure’ portrays nature as a comforting force.
False
Nature is depicted as harsh and unforgiving, contributing to the soldiers’ suffering.
Why did Wilfred Owen write the poem
Was angry at the conditions of war and the waste of life
Why is the weather personified
To show that the enemy is the weather not the soldiers
What is the effect of the rhetorical question ‘what are we doing here’
Creates a sense that they have lack of purpose and are wasting their life’s
What is the effect of ‘shivering ranks of grey’
The snow is attacking like their the army
What does it mean by ’the bullets are less deadly than the air’
The weather is worse than the bullets being shot at them
What is the quote ‘black with snow’
An oxymoron and shows that the world has been turned upside down by the war
What is the quote ‘pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces’
Personification and is the snow freezing them to death
What are the religious references
The soldiers feel like Jesus sacrificing themselves for the people as god wants them to
