Exposure

Question 1

BIG IDEA of Exposure

Answer 1

conflict between man and nature
nature is more powerful than man

Question 2

STRUCTURE of Exposure

Answer 2

pararhyme
ABBAC

Question 3

what is pararhyme

Answer 3

showing words which appear to rhyme yet don’t

Question 4

why is it significant that pararhyme is used in EXPOSURE

Answer 4

creates an unsettling sense of what the soldiers are experiencing

Question 5

EXPOSURE title analysis

Answer 5

being exposed to the elements
can die if it’s too hot or cold

Question 6

‘merciless iced east winds that knive us…’

Answer 6

EXPOSURE
personification of wind shows that nature is attacking the soldiers

Question 7

‘poignant misery of dawn’

Answer 7

EXPOSURE
Oxymoron of a new day
(hopeful not miserable)

Question 8

‘Is it that we are dying?’

Answer 8

EXPOSURE
Rhetroical question to which the answer is yes

Poet died in the war a few days before it ended

Question 9

‘crusted dark-red jewels’

Answer 9

EXPOSURE
Metaphor
Their frozen blood in the ice representing how valuable their lives once were

Question 10

‘For love of God seems dying’

Answer 10

EXPOSURE
Even GOD is turning his back on the soldiers
HOPELESS