Exposure

Question 1

Personification

Answer 1

“Merciless… winds that knive us”
Brutal lack of regard/ remorse/ care
Merciless- mad, insanity, angry, retaliating, nature is being abused
Knive- attacking, murder, intentional

Question 2

Sibilance( like alliteration, have same letter and sound)

Answer 2

“Silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous”
Onomatopoeic 
Sounds like the wind 
Slow; death is approaching 
Sinister

Question 3

Repetition

Answer 3

“But nothing happens”
Waiting to die 
Slowly being killed by the weather
Reality of war
Monotonous/ relentless

Question 4

Personification

Answer 4

“Her melancholy army”
Mother nature is at rebellion against man
Sadness in response to the treatment of nature
Nothing good will come from it
Shouldn’t come to this
Anger to sadness: reflects emotional journey of the soldiers
Army- weather
Soldiers are giving up

Question 5

Sibilance

Answer 5

“Sudden, successive, streak the silence”

Question 6

Fricatives

Answer 6

“Flowing flacks that flock”

Question 7

Fricative

Answer 7

“Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces”
ill/sick- feeling if they are still alive/ wish for a good feeling has been sapped out of them/ draining
Stalking

Question 8

Oxymoron

Answer 8

“Black with snow”
Nature has lost all innocence/ purity
Symbolises darkness and depression
Destruction of the beauty of nature
White: meant to be pure and heavenly- like God isn’t helping