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. “
(DEDE) What technique? "Men marched asleep"
Metaphor
(DEDE) What technique? "Knock-kneed, coughing like hags,"
Alliteration, Simile
Which poem uses the metaphor of "passing bells"?
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Name one rhetorical question from Anthem for Doomed Youth?
"What passing-bells for those who die as cattle? or What candles may be held to speed them?"
When was WW1?
1914-18
(DEDE) What technique? “Floundering like a man in fire or lime”
Simile/ Sensory Imagery
(Futility) What technique? "The kind old sun will know."
Personfication
Which Wilfred Owen's poem famously uses a volta?
Anthem for Doomed Youth
What technique is in “the shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells”
Metaphor
(AFDY) Explain the effect of the metaphor in "the shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells."
The sound of the shells/bombs dropping are described to be like a chor from hell as a praise destruction and death.
What does the rhetorical question "what candles may be held to speed them?" mean?
It implies that they do not havea proper burial/ funeral as no candles are used to send them into the afterlife
(Futility) What tense do you see in this quote "always it woke him, even in France, until this morning and this snow."?
Present tense
(AFDY) What does the volta achieve?
It signals a move from the sounds of war to the funeral practices associated with Christianity.
(AFDY) What technique? "What candles may be held to speed them all?"
Rhetorical Question
Which poem contrasts the brutality of war with traditional funeral rites
Anthem for Doomed Youth
List two reasons men enlist
Patriotism, peer pressure, sense of adventure, lacked understanding of the realities of war
Finish the quote "dulce et decorum est;"
"pro patria mori"
(DEDE) What technique? "An ecstacy of fumbling."
Oxymoron
In which poem does Owen use the image of a soldier struggling to wake under the sun?
Futility
(Futility) What does the sun represent?
Life or hope
(DEDE) What assosication is Owen's making when saying that the effects of gas has man “floundering like a man in fire or lime”?
The reference to a fish out of water through the word “floundering” further emphasises the debasing effects of such a weapon.
(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.
(AFDY) What technique? "The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells."
Metaphor
(DEDE) What technique? "His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin."
Simile/ Irony
What comparison is Owen's trying to make in the quote, "an ecstasy of fumbling,"?
He is comparing the experience of these young soldiers, to the regular experiences of men. The word ecstasy has associations with sex and drugs.
DEDE- Finish the quote "bent double, like"
old beggars under sacks
(Futility) What technique? "Gently its touch awoke him once"
Personfication
Name two key themes of Wilfred Owen's work
Wasted Youth, Reality of war, Futility
(Futility) What technique? "Was it for this the clay grew tall?"
Rhetorical Question and Metaphor
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”).
What is no-mans land?
The dangerous, unoccupied area between two opposing trenches in WW1, often filled with barbed wire, mud, and dead bodies.
(DEDE) What technique? "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks?"
Simile
DEDE- What technqiue extends over the whole poem?
Irony
DEDE- Finish the quote "knock-kneed, coughing like.."
hags
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.
(Futility) What does this quote do? "Was it for this the clay grew tall?"
questions the point of life and the clay is a metpahor for soldiers growing into adolescence.
In the rhetorical question "what candles may be held to speed them?" What does speed mean?
What is volta?
Volta is the turn of a poem, when the subject changes
DEDE- Finish the quote "the old lie;
dulce et decorum est. Pro patria mori."
(AFDY) Finish the quote, "no mockeries now for them..."
"no prayers nor bells."
What does “Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori,” mean?
“It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country.”
What does futility mean?
Futility means pointlessness or uselessness.
DEDE- Finish the quote "hanging face, like.."
"a devil's sick of sin."
What is trench warfare?
Fighting in fortified trenches
(Futiltiy) What technique? "At home, whispering of fields unsown."
Personification
What technique asks a rhetorical question and then answers it?
Hypophora
(DEDE) What technique? "Gas! Gas! Quick, boys!
Holophrastic language
(Futility) What does the personification of the sun do?
It gives a maternal characteristic to the sun as "it's touch" is what brings life to soldiers.
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.
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