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GCSE English Lit
Power and Conflict Poetry Anthology - Light Brigade
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How is the narration of Charge of the Light Brigade voiced? | 3rd person |
| Who do you think Tennyson blames for the soldier's deaths? | A senior officer who gave the wrong orders "Some one had blunder'd" |
| Who wrote the poem "Charge of the Light Brigade"? | Tennyson |
| What weaponry did the Light Brigade have? | Sabres and mounted on horseback. |
| What weaponry did the Russians have? | Cannons and rifles |
| What is the effect of splitting the poem into numbered stanzas? | It makes it look like a hymn. Gives it a solemn tone. 6 stanzas = 600 dead soldiers. |
| What is the effect of the lines "Cannon to the right of them, Cannon to the left of them, Cannon in front of them." | It shows the soldiers surrounded and trapped and hopeless. |
| The narrator calls them the "six hundred", what effect does this have? | It shows that they are one like minded group - willing to obey their orders no matter what happens. |
| What is the "Charge of the Light Brigade" about? | It's about British cavalry who charged towards Russian troops but it was a disaster and many British soldiers died. |
| What does the 2nd stanza say about the soldiers? | It says they were obedient and did not question their orders. |
| What does "Some one had blunder'd" say about what the author thinks about war? | Tennyson criticises war as he shows that one mistake cost a lot of soldiers their lives. |
| What does the effect of calling each soldier who died "noble" and a "hero" have? | It glorifies war by suggesting that dying in war is heroic not tragic. |
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