Poem - The Charge Of The Light Brigade Flashcards

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What war is this poem about?

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Crimean war

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This poem has dactylic dimeter. What is dactylic dimeter?

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Dactylic Dimeter means there is one stressed syllable, followed by two unstressed. This happens twice a line.

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What is the “O” in line 50 called?

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An apostrophe

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The tone after line 25 changes. This happens because the soldiers die after they go…

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Into the mouth of hell

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Lots of the lines start with the same sound. This makes the poem’s message seem bigger. What technique is this?

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Anaphora

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The alliteration in “while all the world wondered” slows the reader down. This…

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Gives the reader time for reflection

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The sibilance of “sabre-stroke, shatter’d and sunder’d” means that…

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The 4 words are linked in the readers mind

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The onomatopoeia of the “un” in “thunder’d” represents?

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The sound of cannons firing

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Why is dactylic dimeter used?

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Sounds like a galloping horse

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Throughout the poem each stanza starts with “[verb] the six hundred”. This changes in stanza 4…

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When it ends “NOT the six hundred”. This implies that the six hundred are no longer doing anything: they have died.

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Line 13-15 is famous phrase which stays in the memory because of its rhyme.

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“Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die”

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This quote is a biblical reference from Psalm 23. Psalm 23 is where David says he won’t be scared of Goliath even though he is smaller; because he believes in God. The six hundred are like David.

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In the valley of Death

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This quote could show how the poet Tennyson was using his positon to question the morality of war, by describing it as sending men into…

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the jaws of Death

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Tennyson was not part of the war, he read about it in newspapers. What effect does this have?

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The poem has a distant quality and reflects the glorification of war by those not involved

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Tennyson presents the view that taking orders and serving ones country is honourable

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Theirs was not to reason why, / theirs was but to do and die

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