The Charge Of The Light Brigade

Question 1

What is the narrative in Charge of the Light Brigade?

Answer 1

Describes the actions of the light brigade and the mistakes they made where they were struck and shot down by cannons.

Question 2

What is the context of Charge of the light brigade?

Answer 2

The poem recounts an assault by a brigade of British cavalry under the command of Lord James Thomas Brudenell, Earl of Cardigan, which cost the lives of 113 men and injured 143 others.

Question 3

What is the structure of charge of the light brigade?

Answer 3

Ballad - song , Dactylic dimeter, irregular rhyme

Question 4

What is the form of charge of a light brigade?

Answer 4

6 stanza, irregular

Question 5

What are the language techniques used in charge of the light brigade?

Answer 5

Dactylic dimeter, repetition, sibilance, personification, rhyme, prepositions, rhetorical question, imperative verb