Exposure

Question 1

Merciless iced east winds that knife us

Answer 1

Sibilance

Question 2

Low dropping flares

Answer 2

Metaphor for the soldiers themselves

Question 3

Silence sentries whisper curious nervous

Answer 3

Sibilance

Question 4

Dull rumour

Answer 4

Vocabulary presents fight as unreal

Question 5

What are we doing here

Answer 5

Rhetorical question

Question 6

War lasts rain soaks and clouds sag stormy

Answer 6

Tripartite list makes weather potentially more of a threat than war

Question 7

Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence

Answer 7

Makes bullets sound soft

Question 8

Flowing flakes that flock

Answer 8

Alliteration

Question 9

Winds nonchalance

Answer 9

Personification

Presents wins as detached

Question 10

Snow dazed

Answer 10

Reflect the soldiers sense of unreality / confusion

Question 11

Slowly our ghosts drag home

Answer 11

Assonance

Even imagination can’t get them home quickly

Question 12

All closed on us the doors are closed

Answer 12

Repetitions impossibility of returning home

Question 13

For love of god seems dying

Answer 13

Soldiers have lost all hope

Except what they see as fate

Question 14

All their eyes are ice

Answer 14

Metaphor

Loss of emotion in soldiers frozen death like state