Exposure

Question 1

What stucture is used

Answer 1

Rhythm five line stanzas
Broken ABBAC rhyme scheme (pararyhme)

Question 2

What does the rhythm rpresent

Answer 2

Represents the repetitive and never ending nature of war

Question 3

What does the broken ABBAC rhyme scheme represent

Answer 3

Repeated rhyme scheme reveals the motonomy of war
Symbolises the men badly holding on
The cycle continues as expected but gets gradually worse and detorioiated like the men

Question 4

What themes

Answer 4

Misery of war
Reveals the horrific day to day misery experienced by those who go to war
Weather (presented as the real enemy of the soldiers
Lord of humanity

Question 5

Quote 1 and what

Answer 5

Our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knive us
Sibilance
•highlights the intensity of the pain and the brutality of weather
•represents the onomatopoeic sound of the wind
Personification
•the weather is personified thought the poem to make it sound menacing and deadly
Characterises the weather as the real enemy of the soldiers

Question 6

Quote 2 and what

Answer 6

Less deadly than the air that suffers black with snow
Personification
The nature is personified as more damaging and deadly than the bullets
Black connotates the imagery of death foreshadowing the soldiers fate

Question 7

Quote 3 and what

Answer 7

But nothing happens…
Repetion of the phrase gives the reade a sense of boredom caused by waiting and hints at the pointlessness of war

Question 8

What is Wilfred’s writers purpose

Answer 8

to inform people back in Britain about the horrors of the war and in particular about life on the front line