English revision

Question 1

bent double, like old beggars under sacks

Answer 1

simile: physical condition of soldiers, not seen realistically

Question 2

all went lame; all blind; drunk with fatigue

Answer 2

metaphor: exhausted, nature of war, disorientated

Question 3

an ecstasy of fumbling, fitting the clumsy helmets just in time.

Answer 3

metaphor: chaotic time, have to be urgent when gas is thrown.

Question 4

in all my dreams before my helpless sight he plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

Answer 4

Repetition: gives the reader an insight on how bad the gas was using the repeating adjectives.

Question 5

if you could hear, at every jolt, the blood come gargling from the froth corrupted lungs.

Answer 5

Metaphor: when describing his lungs on how they were rotten by the horrific chemicals

Question 6

my friend you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old lie.

Answer 6

Irony: When explaining how the “old lie” shouldn’t be so glamourised
(dulce et decorum est pro patria mori) it is sweet and proper to die for ones country.