Section B Flashcards
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?’
Rhetorical question
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.’
Personification
Proudly’
Adverb
Flew’
Verb
Hear me, my Chiefs!’
Command or imperative
From where the sun now stands’
Sibilance
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks’
Simile
Old’
Adjective
Gas! GAS!’
Repetition or exclamotary sentence
Behind the wagon that we flung him in’
Dehumanising
Does it matter? -losing your legs?’
Rhetorical questions
Turning’
Verb
People’
Noun
Boy’
Noun
My heart is sick and sad.’
Personification or sibilance
heart’
Noun
My’
Possessive pronoun
Who’s for the game, the biggest that’s played,
Extended metaphor
The red crashing game of a fight?
Who’ll grip and tackle the job unafraid?’
Calling’
Verb
Perhaps
Adverb
We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans,’
Anaphora
The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars to Westerbork,’
Dehumanising
