Exposure Flashcards
1
Q
Overall message
A
The men are also fighting a war against the weather
2
Q
Context
A
- world war 1
- 1917- coldest winter on record
- hypothermia
- Owen served himself
3
Q
Metaphor
A
‘Sunk fires’ -the men are going to die
4
Q
Personification
A
‘Merciless iced east winds that knife us’ -they are fighting a war against the weather
5
Q
Simile
A
‘Like twitching agonies is men among its brambles’- agony of the men dying from being stuck on the barbed wire.
6
Q
Fictive alliteration
A
‘Flowing flakes that flock’- subtle nature of the men’s deaths
7
Q
Repetition
A
‘But nothing happens’ -just waiting to die
8
Q
Prolepsis
A
‘Tonight his frost will fasten in this mud and us’ -the men, for a fact, will die that night.
9
Q
Rhythm and meter
A
Irregular- as the men die of hypothermia they become incoherent.
