Sir's Quotes (Bayonet Charge, Remains, Poppies)

Question 1

Showing the sounds of the shots in Bayonet Charge

Answer 1

“bullets smacking the belly out of the air-“

Question 2

Shwoing the realism of war or how his weapon has no use

Answer 2

“he lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm”

Question 3

Showing how he is proud to fight for his country

Answer 3

“patriotic tear”

Question 4

Showing how war is ugly in bayonet charge

Answer 4

“a yellow hare that rolled like a flame/ And crawled in a threshing circle”

Question 5

Showing how he doesn’t think highly of the reasons to go to war

Answer 5

“king, honour, human dignity, etcetera”

Question 6

Start of Remains showing how this was normal

Answer 6

“On another occasion”

Question 7

Showing a sense of doubt in remains

Answer 7

“probably armed, possibly not”

Question 8

Metaphor showing violent imagry in remains

Answer 8

“rips through his life”

Question 9

Showing the casual and brutal nature of iraq

Answer 9

“tosses his guts back into his body”

Question 10

Reference to Macbeth

Answer 10

“his bloody life in my bloody hands”

Question 11

Types of material folds

Answer 11

“tucks, darts, pleats”

Question 12

Positive simile shwoing the son’s excitment and the mothers sadness

Answer 12

“the world overflowing/ like a treasure chest”

Question 13

A metaphor of her letting her son go

Answer 13

“released a song bird from it’s cage”

Question 14

Makes the mothers loss univercal

Answer 14

“hoping to hear. Your playground voice catching on the wind”

Question 15

Showing how the mother misses the son and wishes for his saftey

Answer 15

“leaned against it like a wishbone”