Exposure Flashcards
1
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Story line
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Poem focuses on the misery felt by World War One soldiers waiting overnight in the trenches
2
Q
Structure
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There are a lot of separate stanzas
3
Q
Themes
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Pity of war
Irony of dying to exposure of the elements rather than - “the monstrous anger of the guns”
Humanity vs nature
4
Q
Structure
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Written in the present tense with the first person plural
5
Q
Rhyme scheme
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ABBAC rhyme scheme = monotonous nature of their lives there
6
Q
Comparison to other poems
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Charge of the light brigade
Bayonet charge
London
7
Q
Poetic techniques used
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Sibilance Repetition Personification Alliteration Rehitorical questions - "what are we doing here?" Half rhyme Simile
8
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Form
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Sentences and lines in the poem are very long like how long they have been waiting
