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What is alliteration?
Alliteration is the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words in close succession (e.g. “rifle's rapid rattle”).
Name two key themes of Wilfred Owen's work
Wasted Youth, Reality of war, Futility
When was WW1?
1914-18
What does futility mean?
Futility means pointlessness or uselessness.
What does “Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori,” mean?
“It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country.”
What is no-mans land?
The dangerous, unoccupied area between two opposing trenches in WW1, often filled with barbed wire, mud, and dead bodies.
What is holophrastic language?
Holophrastic language is when a single word or short phrase expresses a complex idea or full sentence, often used in moments of trauma or strong emotion (e.g. “
What is enjambment?
Enjambment is continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of poetry to the next without a pause or punctuation mark.
What is trench warfare?
Fighting in fortified trenches
List two reasons men enlist
Patriotism, peer pressure, sense of adventure, lacked understanding of the realities of war
(AFDY) What effect does Owen’s comparison of the “passing bells for those who die as cattle “ and “stuttering rifles rapid rattle,” make?
He juxtaposes the sounds experience as ‘funerals’ for the young boys. Rather than having funeral bells, they experience rifles.
What technique is in “the shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells”
Metaphor
What is volta?
Volta is the turn of a poem, when the subject changes
Which Wilfred Owen's poem famously uses a volta?
Anthem for Doomed Youth
A pall is a cloth used to cover a coffin. Owen states that “the pallor of girls brows shall be their pall.” What comparison is he making?
That rather than experiencing a typical funeral, the grief on girls face (the paleness= pallor) is all they will have.
(DEDE) What technique? “Floundering like a man in fire or lime”
Simile/ Sensory Imagery
