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WWI Poetry, Analysis Questions and Language Features
WWI Poetry, Analysis Questions and Language Features
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What interrupts the march in "Dulce et Decorum est"?
a fight
gunfire
shells
poison gas
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When was WWI?
1912-1918
1912-1917
1914-1917
1914-1918
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What is the real name for Mustard gas?
curry
yperite
fliperite
ymerite
4
What is the name of the poem? 'If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner
Carol
Suicide in the Trenches
Futility
The Soldier
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In "Dulce et Decorum est" what are the bent-over soldiers compared to?
beggars
hunchbacks
Pack animals
servants
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Where is the coughing, gurgling soldier put in "Dulce et Decorum est"?
A wagon
A house
On the side of the road
A grave
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Technique in: 'Only the monstrous anger of the guns/Only the stuttering rifle's rapid rattle'.
Metaphor
Enjambment
Repitition
Simile
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Who was known for hating the war, but still participated?
Siegfried Sassoon
Wilfred Owen
Rupert Brooke
Jessie Pope
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When were 'Dulce et Decorum Est' and 'Anthem for the Doomed Youth' written?
1919
1916
1918
1917
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Which war did Wilfred Owen fight in?
Vietnam War
WWI
WWII
Afghanistan
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'Dulce et Decorum Est, Pro Patria Mori' means:
Sweet and Fitting is to die for one's country
The brave and honest fight with vigour
War is not as sweet and fitting as one thinks
Brave and Courageous is to perish for one's country
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How deep were frontline trenches?
1-2 feet
7-8 feet
5-6 feet
3-4 feet
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What is theme?
mood of a poem
main idea in a poem
main character in a poem
details in a poem
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What are the men in "Dulce et Decorum est" deaf to?
shouting
God
Shells
Praise
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Who was Siegfried Sassoon?
A war poet contemporary of Owen
A soldier and friend of Own, met during a battle in the war
A propagandist poet during WWI
A nurse during WWI
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What is an allusion?
way of hiding the truth using words
to escape or get away from something or someone
a visual trick between the eye and the mind
reference to a person, place, event or artistic work
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In "Dulce et Decorum est" the speaker can best be described as
confused
bitter
hopeful
youthful
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The opening simile in Anthem for Doomed Youth compares cattle and...?
Prayers
Shells
Guns
Soldiers
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What happens to the man in "Dulce et Decorum est" who does not get his helmet on?
He dies immediately.
He attacks another man
Nothing
He falls
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What does the 'old lie', Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, mean?
You should love your homeland.
War makes a man out of you.
It is good to die for your country.
We need you in the war.
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What was Dulce et Decorum Est originally written as?
A letter to Owen's mother
A letter of mourning
A letter to Jessie Pope
A Poem
22
Anthem for Doomed Youth uses the structure of which type of poem?
A free verse poem
A limmerick
A sonnet
A haiku
23
This poster is designed to appeal to:
A love of homeland.
A feeling of respect, duty and conscience
The promise of a glorious victory
24
Where did Sassoon and Owen meet?
On the battlefield
At a battlefield postbox
In a war hospital
In Hull City, England
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Who was the poet behind 'Dulce et Decorum Est' and 'Anthem for the Doomed Youth'?
Siegfried Sassoon
Jessie Pope
Walter de la Mere
Wilfred Owen
26
World War I ended in what day in 1918?
May 8th
April 25th
November 11th
December 25th
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Which is the BEST theme statement for Wilfred Owen's poems?
Soldiers are valued beyond measure by their country
Death in war can be glorious and honourable
Death in war is gruesome and senseless
Soldiers cannot be trusted to protect each other
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What technique is found in 'knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge?'
A metaphor
Symbolism
Personification
A simile
29
What is an example of an onomatopoeic word?
drumming
chatting
Woosh
Ssh!
30
Why is/was poetry so important during the war?
To get people to join the army.
People wanted to express their feelings.
It was some sort of code. The enemy wouldn't understand it.
People needed distraction.
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The quote 'Dulce et Decorum Est' stems from where?
Luther Luxom's "The Song of War"
Walter de la Mere's "The Listeners"
Homer's Poetry (Roman Author)
Horace's Ode (II.2.13)
32
Complete this line, 'and each slow dusk a drawing-down of....
pall
blinds
cattle
shells
33
A sonnet is usually a poem about which of the following?
War
Death
Love
Fantasy
34
This poster is designed to appeal to:
A feeling of respect, duty and conscious
A love of homeland.
The promise of a glorious victory.
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Put the poets in chronological order:
Rupert Brooke - Wilfred Owen - Siegfried Sassoon
Wilfred Owen - Siegfried Sassoon - Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke - Siegfried Sassoon - Wilfred Owen
Siegfried Sassoon - Wilfred Owen - Rupert Brooke
