Power and Conflict - Charge of the Light Brigade (Tennyson)

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  • Created on: 23-02-22 18:56
In the quote "valley of death" what device is used?
metaphor
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This may give us what connotations?
biblical connotations
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For example?
Hell
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This shows the what of war?
(2)
brutality and horrors of war
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The device used in "jaws of death"?
personification
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May reinforce how their is no what for the soldiers?
escape from death
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This shows the _______ of the soldiers?
bravery
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Since death for a soldier in war is like?
a predator
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Which is?
vicious
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And that there is no?
no escape from it
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This poem is based on what war?
Crimean war
Battle of Balaclava
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People and newspapers began to question?
generals who led the soldiers
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Since they were given?
wrong orders
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Tennyson here redirects?
attention
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And instead forgets?
the mistakes
15 of 28
And celebrates?
the sacrifice
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What device is used in "canon"?
anaphora
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This gives us connotations of?
war
18 of 28
It also suggests how the soldiers were fully?
surrounded
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This emphasises the soldiers?
(2)
courage and valour
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What device is used in the quote "honour"?
imperatives
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This repetition builds up?
conflict
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This immortilises?
the soldiers
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The form used here is?
a lament
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A lament is typically a poem that is?
mourning
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Here we can see Tennyson ?
twisting the form
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And turns it into a?
celebration
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Here Tennyson is also twisting the?
reality of the battle
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biblical connotations

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For example?

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This shows the what of war?
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The device used in "jaws of death"?

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