Exposure

Question 1

Our brains ache

Answer 1

Assonance - the long vowel sounds represent the soldiers’ boredom.

Question 2

merciless iced east winds that knive us…

Answer 2

Sibilance imitates the hissing wind.

Question 3

Silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous

Answer 3

Sibilance imitates the soldiers’ whispers.

Question 4

mad gusts tugging on the wire

Answer 4

Personification to represent the frenzy of war.

Question 5

brambles…rumbles

Answer 5

Para-rhymes used ironically to contrast how the military should be regimented and strict.

Question 6

The poignant misery of dawn

Answer 6

Contradiction as dawn usually represents hope.

Question 7

Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army

Answer 7

Personification implies they are also battling the weather.

Question 8

Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence.

Answer 8

Sibilance imitates the aforementioned silence/whispers.

Question 9

We cringe in holes, back in forgotten dreams

Answer 9

Metaphor to imply they are being hunted like animals.

Question 10

Slowly out ghosts drag home

Answer 10

Foreshadowing as many of the men will die as unknown soldiers. Owen himself, for example.