Exposure Flashcards
How is exposure written?
Each stanza begins with a powerful sentence with emotive language, then followed by highly emotive vocabulary choices highlighting the tension which is climatic moment then ends with a anti-climatic sentence very little happens.
What does the sentence structure suggests?
Owen wants the reader to emphasis with how the soldiers felt, everything is tense and seemingly building to a climax only to end with nothing happening.
What does the rhyme scheme follow?
An ABBAC scheme.
What does the ABBAC scheme suggest?
The repetitive and futile situation of the soldiers.
In the last lines of the last 4 stanza’s owen makes them question their love of God saying what?
‘What are we doing here?…Is it that we are dying?…We turn back to our dying… For love of God is dying.’
The writer describes the weather as an enemy saying what?
Wind that knife us…mad gusts…acts in ranks
What is the repetition owen uses to represent boredom in war
‘But nothing happens’
