exposure Flashcards

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Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knife us . . .

A

sibilance mimics the sound of the wind blowing through the trenches and the sound of the winds stabbing the army

personification

not the physical pain of war but the mental torment that comes with the constant fear of war#

winds that knifed us shows how its the winds and the elements that are doing the damage not the enemies

enjambment

Ache - verb

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the mad gusts tugging on the wire

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but nothing happens as the war has already started. they are getting beat by nature.

they’ve almost been programed to stand and wait and don’t move

personification the wind is mad because it is angry with people for trying to challenge it

verb getting absolutly destroued

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3
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but nothing happens.

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repetition shows the damage nature is causing

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The burying-party, picks and shovels in their shaking grasp,
Pause over half-known faces

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Sibilance - they will die by nature because they have been frozen to death nature because nothing is happening

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5
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Title - exposure

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The origin of this word is ‘enclosed’ , and the soldiers will feel like this

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