New Quotes

Question 1

‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ by

Answer 1

Wilfred Owen

Question 2

‘When All the Others Were Away at Mass’ by

Answer 2

Séamus Heaney

Question 3

‘Timothy Winters’ by

Answer 3

Charles Causley

Question 4

‘Midterm Break’ by

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Séamus Heaney

Question 5

Simile, Imagery of soldiers looking that way

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“Bent double, like old beggars under sacks”

Question 6

Theme of war (horrible gas), Tone (exclamation marks allow us to imagine shouting)

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“Gas! GAS! Quick boys! An ecstasy of fumbling”

Question 7

Theme of death + horrors of war (He is haunted by the death)

Imagery-use if strong verbs emphasises horror

Answer 7

“He plunges at me guttering, choking, drowning”

Question 8

Sibilance, Simile, Tone enhanced by sibilance, Imagery - the terrible image of a dead soldier’s face

Answer 8

“His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin”

Question 9

Juxtaposition - (Glory/ achievement not associated with desperation/death)
Theme of war (really just desperate glory)

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War/Pride of Country - calls it an old lie, i.e: not honourable to die for one’s country.

Question 10

Theme of War/Pride of Country - calls it an old lie, i.e: it is not sweet and fitting to die for one’s country.
Tone: Lie is capitalised to emphasise it is a lie

Answer 10

“The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori”

Question 11

Simile, Imagery-describing the sound of peeling potatoes

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“Like solder weeping off the soldering iron”

Question 12

Alliteration, Tone enhaced by allieration, Imagery -potatoes symbolise the time they spend together

Answer 12

“Cold comforts set between us”

Question 13

Tone - Said quietly as these are softer words -precise word selection
Onomatopoeia - Splashes
Imagery - Image Developed with onomatopoeia

Answer 13

“Little pleasant splashes”

Question 14

Tone - Said louder as these are harsher words -precise word selection
Imagery - We can imagine the priest is saying the prayers in a loud way

Answer 14

“Went hammer and tongs”

Question 15

Themes of Family/ Sentimentality / Loss - Poet is remembering this memory of his mother as she dies
Rhyming (knives and lives)

Answer 15

“Fluent dipping knives”

“Never closer the whole rest of our lives”

Question 16

Them of war - Blitz- German bombing of British cities during WW2, also explains why poet describes his ears like bombs in the previous line.
Alliteration, Tone emphasised because of alliteration.

Answer 16

“A blitz of a boy is Timothy Winters”

Question 17

Metaphor - his hair is messy

Imagery - implies that he doesn’t have nicest hair

Answer 17

“His hair is an exclamation mark”

Question 18

Metaphor - describing maths/ schoolwork as a bird which Timothy Winters ‘shoots down’ because he doen’t understand it
Theme of School/ Childhood - struggles at school

Answer 18

“And he shoots down dead the arithmetic bird”

Question 19

Theme of neglect/ poverty- he is being abandoned -difficult family situation

Answer 19

“Timothy’s dosed with an aspirin”

Question 20

Tone: ‘roars’ and exclamation mark implies that Amen is said loudly
Repetition: Amen is repeated several times in the stanza

Answer 20

“And the loudest respose in the room is when Timothy Winters roars “Amen!”

Question 21

Imagery We can imagine the child in need of an angel or even ten to help his desperate situation.

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“So come one angel come on ten”

Question 22

Alliteration, Tone enhanced by alliteration, Imagery description of law as difficult, Simile.

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“But the law’s as tricky as a ten-foot snake”

Question 23

Theme: Death, Grief -the father must be really upset over the death

Answer 23

“He had always taken funerals in his stride”

Question 24

Grief: The people’s words mean nothing to the poet
Tone: Quoting what others are saying

Answer 24

“Sorry for my troubles”

Question 25

Sibilance, Imagery of whispers moving through a room, Tone enhanced by sibilance.

Answer 25

“Whispers informed strangers”

Question 26

Coughed= Onomatoepoeia
Imagery of tearless sighs suggests the mother has cried a lot already
Theme: Grief and sadness

Answer 26

“As my mother held my hand in hers and coughed out angry tearless sighs”

Question 27

Imagery of the bruise that killed him

Theme of death- we hear about the cause of death.

Answer 27

“Wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple”

Question 28

Alliteration, Imagery, we can imagine how the boy looked when he was alive

Answer 28

“He lay in the four-foot box as though in his cot”

Question 29

Themes: Grief and Death and Tradgedy as he was only four when he died
Rhyming + Repetition of four-foot box emphasises last line
Tone enhanced by alliteration and rhyming

Answer 29

“The bumper knocked him clear”

“A four-foot box, a foot for every year”