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ELA 2nd quarter exam
Question | Answer |
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Embrace | Hold closely or accept |
Adore | Love and respect |
Honored | High respect |
Why might Lucasta think the speaker in the poem is being unkind | The speaker is leaving Luca for war |
What is the inconstancy that the speaker wants Lucasta to understand | The speaker loves Lucasta but he loves war more |
What is one thing the speaker loves more than Lucasta | War and honor |
How many soldiers rode into battle? | 600 |
What name does the speaker give the valley into which the 600 ride? | The valley of death |
What does the speaker urge readers to do at the end of the poem? | Honor is the light brigade and their charge |
Impertinent | Not showing proper respect rude |
Putrid | Decaying rotting and emitting a fetid smell |
Vile | Extremely unpleasant |
What specific mud is the speaker describing in this poem? | Mud in battlefields |
According to the speaker, for what does the mud have no respect | They don’t have respect for destruction |
According to the speaker with what does the belly of the mud reek? | The mud reeks with the undigested dead |
Describe the soldiers physical state at the beginning of the poem | Tired, crippled, sick |
What causes one of the soldiers to drown in the second stanza? | The poison gas |
What is the source of the poems title? | The Latin saying that the narrator is trying to prove wrong |