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What is the difference in tone between the octet (the first eight lines) and the sestet (the last six lines)?
Octet: sad, detatched Sestet: emotional
Octet: memorial Sestet: factual
Octet: noisy, violent Sestet: silent, sad
Octet: horrified Sestet: peaceful
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Why does Owen compare the soldiers to cattle?
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What words suggest the rural areas in England where these dying soldiers came from which will mourn their loss?
Wailing shells
Prayers and bells
The pallor of girls
Sad shires
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What is compared in Anthem for Doomed Youth?
Life at a military hospital + traditional Christian funerals
A national anthem and the songs of young soldiers
The sound of bells and the screams of soldiers
The death of young soldiers + traditional Christian funerals
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Which words might best describe the title of the poem 'Anthem for Doomed Youth"?
Respectful and mournful
Mocking disdain
Celebratory memorialising
Bitterly ironic
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Why was Wilfred Owen sent home in 1916 before returning two years later?
He caught typhoid
He suffered from shellshock
He injured his hand
He was shot in the arm
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What 3 techniques are used in the lines "stuttering rifles rapid rattle/Can patter out their hasty orisons"
Personification, simile, and assonance
Simile, metaphor and onomatopoeia
Alliteration, Onomatopoeia and Personification
Imagery, vivid language, alliteration
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What image is suggested as a replacement for candles at a funeral?
The lights of the dying boy's eyes
The colour of girls' faces
Tender flowers
The drawing down of blinds
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What could "their flowers the tenderness of patient minds" mean?
The soldiers lay flowers where their friends died
Their gains from being patient are flowers
The only positive tribute is the people at home waiting
Heaven is the reward for the soldiers
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"What passing bells for those who die as cattle". The technique used in this line are:
Personification
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Hyperbole
Metaphor
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"Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes." What are the glimmers?
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What technique is "choirs of wailing shells"?
Hyperbole
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Personification
Onomatopoeia
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Instead of funeral bells, what can be heard at these young men's death?
Prayers by military priests
Gunfire
The call of bugles
The singing of demented choirs
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