Power and Conflict Poetry Exposure 3

Power and Conflict Poetry Exposure 3

L.Q- how does Owen explore the terrible conditions in World War 1?

Multiple Choice

What is onomatopoeia?

• a comparison using 'like' or 'as'.

• repeated s sounds

• repeated letter sounds

• words that represents a sound

Multiple Choice

What is personification?

• Giving an object human qualities.

• comparing using 'like' or 'as'

• repeated s sounds

• a word that represents a sound

Multiple Choice

What does Owen say 'knives us' in Stanza 1?

• The enemy

• A sword

• The east wind

• A soldier

Multiple Choice

What is the language feature: the flickering gunnery rumbles

• simile

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• personification

Exposure Stanza 6

Slowly our ghosts drag home: glimpsing the sunk fires, glozed

With crusted dark-red jewels; crickets jingle there;

For hours the innocent mice rejoice: the house is theirs;

Shutters and doors, all closed: on us the doors are closed,—

    We turn back to our dying.

Multiple Choice

What is he imagining in this stanza?

• going to sleep

• going home

• being on fire

• flowers

Open Ended

Why do you think he is imagining the fires of home?

Multiple Choice

What's the language feature: crickets jingle there

• simlie

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

Exposure Stanza 8

Tonight, this frost will fasten on this mud and us,

Shrivelling many hands, and puckering foreheads crisp.

The burying-party, picks and shovels in shaking grasp,

Pause over half-known faces. All their eyes are ice,

    But nothing happens.

Open Ended

What has happened to some of the men in the cold conditions?

Multiple Choice

What's the language feature: this frost will fasten

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• sibilance

Open Ended

Why do you think he ends the poem with 'But nothing happens?'