COTLB Flashcards
1
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Title/theme
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- connotations of charge sound aggressive and connote violence.
- theme of patriotism ‘noble six hundred’ and repetition of ‘honour’
2
Q
Beginning
A
‘Half a league, half a league’
- in media’s Rez
- repetition
- highlights action
3
Q
Soapaims
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- ‘jaws of death’
- ‘mouth of hell’ (personification)
- ‘forward[…]charge’ (imperative verbs)
- ‘there is not to[…]there is not to[…]there is not to’ (anaphora)
4
Q
Soapaims again
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- ‘volley’d and thundered’. (Sound of war)
- ‘stormed at wit shot and shell’ (sibilance)
- ‘valley of death’
5
Q
Structure
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- dyctalic rhythm
- last stanza was shorted due to loss of men
- sound of horses
6
Q
Ending
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‘Noble six hundred’
Patriot of noble
Focuses on this not that ‘someone had blundered’
7
Q
Context
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- Alfred lord Tennyson
- poet lauriet at the time
- about the Crimean war
- focus on bravery of war.
