Bayonet Charge

Question 1

Alliteration of R and H sounds

Answer 1

gives a sense of hard work heavy breathing

Question 2

“Bullets smacking the belly out of the air
He lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm”

Answer 2

Personified bullets and semantic body parts with ‘belly’ and ‘smashed arm’ blurs the line between weapon and man by dehumanising the soldier and personifying the weapons

Question 3

“Clockwork”

Answer 3

A metaphor for his actions as being more like a machine then human ,feel small and powerless

Question 4

“plunged”

Answer 4

‘plunges’ implies diving too deep or cannot return. He made his decision to carry on and there is no turning back.