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War Poetry Flashcards

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Which famous poet wrote ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade?’

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Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate.

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What are the key ideas for ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’?

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The poet is describing a battle he read about in a newspaper. Alfred Lord Tennyson was never a soldier.

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Name some methods used in ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’.

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Rhythm (of charging horses)
Extensive repetition
Anaphora

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Quote some quotations from ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’.

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‘Half a league, half a league / Half a league onward’ which uses repetition
‘Not though the soldier knew / Someone had blundered’
‘When can their glory fade?’

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Which famous poet wrote ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’?

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Wilfred Owen.

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What are the key ideas for ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’?

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It directly addresses jingoistic poetry (e.g. Jessie Pope) through a visceral description of a gas attack.

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Name some methods used in ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’.

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Caesura
Range of punctuation
Narrative structure

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Quote some quotations from ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’.

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‘Bent double, like old beggars under sacks’ which uses simile.
‘Gas! GAS! Quick[ly], boys! / An ecstasy of fumbling’ which uses a range of punctuation.
‘The old Lie: Dulce et Decorum est’ which uses a Latin quotation.

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Which famous poet wrote ‘Base Details’?

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Siegfried Sassoon.

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What are the key ideas for ‘Base Details’?

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It is a polemical against war — specifically, it criticises the Majors’ careless, cruel and heartless attitude to war.

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Name some methods used in ‘Base Details’.

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Alliteration

First person narrator

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Quote some quotations from ‘Base Details’.

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‘Puffy petulant face / Guzzling and gulping’ which uses alliteration.
‘And when the war is done and youth stone dead / I’d toddle safely home and die — in bed’ which is a rhyming couplet.

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Which famous poet wrote ‘The Send Off’?

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Wilfred Owen.

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What are the key ideas in ‘The Send Off’?

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A description of the soldiers leaving to go to the front line.

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Name some methods used in ‘The Send Off’.

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Assonance
Personification
Symbolism

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Quote some quotations from ‘The Send Off’.

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‘Then, unmoved, signals nodded, and a lamp / Winked to the guard’ which uses personification.
‘Down the close, darkening lanes their sang’ which uses assonance.
‘Their breasts were struck all white with wreath and spray / As men’s are, dead.’ which uses symbolism.

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Which famous poet wrote ‘The Soldier’?

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Rupert Brooke.

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What are the key ideas in ‘The Soldier’?

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The poem is a sonnet wherein the soldier speaker patriotically celebrates his home.

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Name some methods used in ‘The Soldier’.

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Personification
First Person Narrator
Assonance

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Quote some quotations from ‘The Soldier’.

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‘That there’s some corner of a foreign field / That is forever England.’
‘In that rich earth a richer dust concealed.’
‘In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.’ which uses hyperbole.

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What is the definition of ‘anaphora’?

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The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.

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What is the definition of ‘bleak’?

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Offering little hope or excitement, dismal.

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What is the definition of ‘caesura’?

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A rhythmical pause in a poetic line or sentence.

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What is the definition of ‘conscription’?

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Compulsory sign-up to the national service.

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What is the definition of ‘contemptuous’?

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Expressing deep hatred or disapproval.

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What is the definition of ‘enjambment’?

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Moving over from one line to another without a terminating punctuation mark.

[NB: ‘terminating punctuation mark’ does not just refer to ‘.’, ‘!’ and ‘?’ in this context — it simply means a punctuation mark at the end of a line.]

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What is the definition of ‘first person narrator’?

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A piece of literature written in which a narrator relays events from their own point of view using the first person, i.e. ‘I’.

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What is the definition of ‘jingoism’?

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Extreme patriotism.

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What is the definition of ‘melancholy’?

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To be overcome with sorrow and sadness.

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What is the definition of ‘narrative’?

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A spoken or written account of connected events.

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What is the definition of ‘nostalgic’?

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Remembering the past in a positive light.

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What is the definition of ‘patriotic’?

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Expressing devotion to one’s country.

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What is the definition of ‘polemic’?

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A statement that heavily criticises or defends an idea.

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What is the definition of ‘refrain’?

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A line, or group of lines, that appears at the end (esp. of a stanza) to add impact.

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What is the definition of ‘repetition’?

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Deliberate use of the same words or phrases a few times in close succession in order to make an idea clearer and more memorable.

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What is the definition of ‘sibilance’?

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A more specific kind of alliteration in which a hissing ‘s’ sound is created as a result of using repeated soft consonants.

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What is the definition of ‘sonnet’?

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A poetic form with fourteen lines.

38
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When was Alfred Lord Tennyson born? when did he die?

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  1. 1892.
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Who was Alfred Lord Tennyson?

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He was a British Victorian poet. Poet Laureate from 1850 until 1892.

40
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Why was Alfred Lord Tennyson significant in the study of war poetry?

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He wrote about the Battle of Balaclava (Crimean War) in ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ despite never actually having gone to war himself.

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When was Wilfred Owen born? when did he die?

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  1. 4th November 1918 — 7 days before the end.
42
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Who was Wilfred Owen?

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A WWI soldier who was killed in France a week before the end of the fighting.

43
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Why was Wilfred Owen significant in the study of war poetry?

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He was a leading WWI poet who highlighted the brutality of war in his poems.

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When was Siegfried Sassoon born? when did he die?

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  1. 1967.
45
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Who was Siegfried Sassoon?

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An English poet, soldier and writer. He was decorated for his bravery on the Western Front.

46
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Why was Siegfried Sassoon important in the study of war poetry?

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He was a leading WWI poet who viewed that war was unnecessarily prolonged by the government.

47
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When was Rupert Brooke born? when did he die?

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  1. 1915.
48
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Who was Rupert Brooke?

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He was an English soldier and poet who died serving in WWI.

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Why was Rupert Brooke significant to the study of war poetry?

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He was an idealist; his war sonnets swiftly became a focus for patriotism and glory of war.

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