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5 cards from this section. Quick, good the night before a test.
What is ekphrasis, and why is it relevant to this poem?
Think of a poem that describes a painting, a vase or a shield.
Identify the simile in line 8 and say what it suggests.
Think of the qualities of lead.
What device is used when the crowd in line 14 is described by its eyes and boots?
Think of a part standing for the whole.
Which stanza form do the shield stanzas (2, 3, 5, 6 and 8) use?
Count the lines and think of the rhyme scheme ababbcc.
Write a paragraph of about 120 words on the use of repetition in the poem, with at least four references to line numbers.
Cover the structural repetition first (lines 1, 23, 45 and 5, 27, 50), then single repeated words, then sum up the effect.
Analyse stanza 5 (lines 31–37) as an extract: identify three devices and explain their combined effect in about 150 words.
Pick the tone, the juxtaposition of the joke and the killing, and the symbols of the wire and the posts, and say what they achieve together.
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