Exposure

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Assonance - the long vowel sounds represent the soldiers' boredom.
Our brains ache
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Sibilance imitates the hissing wind.
merciless iced east winds that knive us
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Sibilance imitates the soldiers' whispers.
silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous
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Personification to represent the frenzy of war.
mad gusts tugging on the wire
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Para-rhymes used ironically to contrast how the military should be regimented and strict.
brambles...rumbles
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Contradiction as dawn usually represents hope.
The poignant misery of dawn
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Personification implies they are also battling the weather.
Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army
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Sibilance imitates the aforementioned silence/whispers.
Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence
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Metaphor to imply they are being hunted like animals.
We cringe in holes, back on forgotten dreams
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Foreshadowing as many of the men will die as unknown soldiers. Owen himself, for example.
Slowly our ghosts drag home
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Card 2

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Sibilance imitates the hissing wind.

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merciless iced east winds that knive us

Card 3

Front

Sibilance imitates the soldiers' whispers.

Back

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Card 4

Front

Personification to represent the frenzy of war.

Back

Preview of the front of card 4

Card 5

Front

Para-rhymes used ironically to contrast how the military should be regimented and strict.

Back

Preview of the front of card 5
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