Exposure - Wilfred Owen

Question 1

What is exposure about?

Answer 1

Soldiers in the trenches in WW1

Question 2

What tense is the poem written in?

Answer 2

Present tense

Question 3

What rhyme scheme is the poem in?

Answer 3

Regular rhyme scheme (ABBAC)

Question 4

When was exposure written?

Answer 4

Between 1917 and 1918

Question 5

What conflict takes place when exposure was written?

Answer 5

WW1

Question 6

What or who, is the real enemy in the poem?

Answer 6

Nature

Question 7

How many stanzas does the poem have?

Answer 7

8

Question 8

Who wrote Exposure?

Answer 8

Wilfred Owen

Question 9

What does Owen constantly question in the poem?

Answer 9

Whether there is any point to the suffering of the soldiers

Question 10

What literary technique is used on the weather in the poem?

Answer 10

Rhetorical questions

Question 11

What literary technique is used to remind the reader of the men’s pain and suffering?

Answer 11

Bleak imagery

Question 12

Name 3 feelings/attitudes shown throughout the poem.

Answer 12

Suffering, Boredom and Hopelessness

Question 13

What biblical reference is made in the second stanza?

Answer 13

Matthew 24:6

Question 14

What does the biblical reference Matthew 24:6 state?

Answer 14

“You will hear of wars and rumors of wars”