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Power and conflict: effects of conflict (Exposure ("Merciless iced…
Power and conflict: effects of conflict
Exposure
"Merciless iced winds that knife us"
Uses personification to show how merciless the wind is towards their trench
"Like twitching agonies of men among the brambles"
Uses the simile to show how gruesome the bodies are in no-mans-land
"misery of dawn"
Uses the oxymoron to show how low morale the soldiers are
"With sidelong flowing flakes that flock, pause and renew"
Uses alliteration to create a negative image of snowflakes
Remains
"His bloody shadow"
Imagery of death, can't get rid of a shadow, same with death
"Probably armed, possibly not"
Sense of guilt
"All three of us open fire"
Voilent/sudden action
"Tosses his guts back into his body"
Juxtaposition of extreme human suffering
Charge of the Light Brigade
"Half a league, half a league, half a league onward"
Uses repetition to convey an army marching
"Cannon to the right of them, cannon to the left of them, cannon behind them"
Use of repetition to convey that one is a team of 600 on horses with swords - the other is a army with lots of cannons
"Into the jaws of Death, into the mouth of Hell rode the six hundred"
Use of vivid imagery used to show the danger and their sacrifice, also showing how unfair the battle is against the light brigade
"Honour the charge they made! Honour the Light Brigade! Noble six hundred!"
The author changes the tone in the last stanza to produce a tone change at his disbelief at how brave they were
London
"chartered"
use of repetition to show bitterness towards the poor
"Marks of weakness, marks of woe."
The alliteration is used to show the desperate lives of the poor in London, and how there is no hope.
"The mind-forged manacles I hear"
use of a metaphor to show how the poor have no escape from poverty
"And blights with plagues the marriage hearse"
The last line in London has bleak indications. The quote shows that the future (marriage) is in danger of death (hearse)