Bayonet Charge - SPITS Breakdown
This is resource is designed to help with the SPITS paragraphing structure used in the exam. If you are not familier with this method it is as follows:
S - Subject matter
P - Purpose
I - Identify (mood, theme etc.)
T - Technique
S - Summarise
I hope this helps and good luck in your exams.
- Created by: AmyBirch01
- Created on: 13-11-17 20:36
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- Bayonet Charge
- S
- Soldier being sent over the top. Bayonet on the end of his rifle.
- The mindset of the soldier.
- Mass onslaught.
- Hughs was in the RAF but never saw action. His father was also in the RAF but did see action.
- P
- To highlight the mindset of soldiers.
- The affect of war on a soldiers mental state.
- I
- Conflict
- Humanity & Nature
- Long lasting effect.
- The poem could be a form of analepsis.
- T
- Structure
- 3 Stanza's.
- Each Shows a different point of his progression along the battlefield.
- 3 Stanza's.
- Personifaction
- "Bullets smacking the belly out of the air"
- Similie
- "a rifle numb as a smashed arm"
- Metaphor
- "Terror's touchy dynamite"
- Sibilance
- "shot-slashed"
- Structure
- S
- The poem highlights the struggles of a soldier on the battlefield.
- It looks at the soldiers mental state at various stages through the charge.
- It shows the effect of war on nature.
- Hughs shows that everything that seems important or that you hold dear will be shed on the battlefield.
- "patriotic tear"
- S
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