Task One DULCE ET DECORUM EST STANZA 1

Task One DULCE ET DECORUM EST STANZA: 1 MAIN IDEA: the ways people died and how they died QUOTE: bent double, like old beggars under sacks, NAME OF LANGUAGE FEATURE: simile EFFECT OF USING THIS LANGUAGE FEATURE it gives the reader the ability to understand a certain thing of action by comparing in to another object by using the words “like” or “as”. This laows people to understand the writers thoughts on how it make look of act. EXPLANATION OF LANGUAGE FEATURE IN QUOTE – LINK TO MAIN IDEA…this showed us how some of the people there were dying in ways where they were curling over and dying like that of beggars so that people could compare it to something that they have seen

Task One DULCE ET DECORUM EST STANZA: 2 MAIN IDEA: all the soilders are scared of the gas QUOTE: fumbling, time, stumbling, lime NAME OF LANGUAGE FEATURE: rhyming EFFECT OF USING THIS LANGUAGE FEATURE the rhyming with the words of fumbling and stumbling and also time and lime show us how rushed and un organised people are when gas comes this is meant incarnate the feeling of a mad dash to the gas masks for survival EXPLANATION OF LANGUAGE FEATURE IN QUOTE – LINK TO MAIN IDEA… rhyming was used to show the effects on people as they scramble to the safety of the gas mask and how the gas looked like when in the situation

Task One DULCE ET DECORUM EST STANZA: 3 MAIN IDEA: the after matrh of the peoples death as they needed to take care of there bodies QUOTE: his hanging face, like a devils sick of sin; NAME OF LANGUAGE FEATURE: simile EFFECT OF USING THIS LANGUAGE FEATURE this gave us the feeling on how bad it was there then the corpses where so lifeless and to a point where they lost even there eyes had gone full white, what frighten people when they realised that also EXPLANATION OF LANGUAGE FEATURE IN QUOTE – LINK TO MAIN IDEA… the author used the idea of the time and lime the describe the speed of the gas as people raced to get to the gas mask meanwhile used lime to describe how the gas have looked like and placed this at the end of the sentence so that

Task Two DULCE ET DECORUM EST STANZA: 1 MAIN IDEA: that there is very little honour for those who died in battle QUOTE: “only the monstrous anger of the guns” NAME OF LANGUAGE FEATURE: personification EFFECT OF USING THIS LANGUAGE FEATURE personification was used here to give the guns the human emotion of anger allowing people to get a better understanding of a non living object by giving human like features what allows the reader in some cases like this compare it towards and relate to it a lot easier EXPLANATION OF LANGUAGE FEATURE IN QUOTE – LINK TO MAIN IDEA…within the stanza they ask what happens to the men whom are slaughter like cattle, and the first thing that comes up is the anger of the guns and most likely is directly related to what happened that war just kept on going endlessly untill everyone died

Task Two DULCE ET DECORUM EST STANZA: 2 MAIN IDEA: its askes for who will be there to light the candles QUOTE: their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, and each slow dusk a drawing down of blinds NAME OF LANGUAGE FEATURE: rhyming EFFECT OF USING THIS LANGUAGE FEATURE rhyming make text much more applying towards the readers and allows the sentences to stay much more longer in the persons mind EXPLANATION OF LANGUAGE FEATURE IN QUOTE – LINK TO MAIN IDEA…this re- incurance of repeating this theme of death leaving simply referring towards this theme with the use of minds and blinds alsostating that the person in question mind is closing down what may mean dying or sleeping but in this context of it being a war poem that it really does mean death