Power and Conflict Anthology - Exposure by Wilfred Owen

Which poem is this line from: 'But nothing happens'?

• Exposure

• Bayonet Charge

• Remains

• Poppies

Where is 'Exposure'set?

• Iraq

• No Man's Land in World War 1

• Trenches of World War 1

• At home

Why did Owen write 'Exposure'?

• To show the realities of war to the people at home

• To show that war is not dangerous

• To complain that war is boring

• To show that war is glorious

What technique is used in the line: 'Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence'?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Sibilance

• Personification

Which technique does Owen use the most in 'Exposure'?

• Personification

• Similes

• Metaphor

• Parallel phrasing

Yes, Owen personifies the weather and turns it into an enemy. Which of these lines do this?. There is more than one answer

• 'merciless iced east winds that knive us'

• 'Littered with blossoms'

• 'Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army'

• 'we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire'

Why doe Owen personify the weather so frequently? Again more than one answer

• To show that the weather is the real enemy

• To show how nice it is

• To show that the Germans are not the real enemy

• Because he can

Para-Rhyme or half rhyme, is a structural device Owen uses to convey.....

• the black humour he found in war

• society's naivety towards war

• the disjointed nature of war and the half-lived lives in war

• his own experiences of war

Which Romantic poet did Owen admire and sometimes imitate?

• Keats

• Wordsworth

• Byron

• Coleridge

Define a pastoral landscape

• having the ruggedness and harshness characteristics associated with mountainous regions

• having the simplicity, charm, serenity, or other characteristics generally attributed to rural areas

• having the emptines and barreness associated with a moorland landscape