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The Charge of the Light Brigade

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the name of the poet?

a)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

b)

Wilfred Owen

c)

Ted Hughes

d)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

2.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson was poet (a)   .

3.

The poem is pro-war.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

What is propaganda?

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5.

Tennyson adopts an irregular rhythm and metre in the poem to...

a)

Make it sound more interesting

b)

Re-create the sound of galloping horse

c)

Re-create the sound of battle

d)

Create irregular line lengths

6.

What is a blunder?

a)

a mistake

b)

a bomb

c)

an attack

d)

a response

7.

Word class: charged, rode, stormed

a)

verb

b)

adverb

c)

noun

d)

adjective

8.

How many soldiers went into battle?

a)

350

b)

400

c)

650

d)

600

9.

'Honour the _____ _______!'

(a)  

10.

'While all the world (a)   '

11.

'Into the ______ of _____'

(a)  

12.

Why didn't Tennyson name the person that gave the command?

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