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Mind Map by Samira Choudhury, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Samira Choudhury
over 7 years ago
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
- 'Into the jaws of death' - Metaphor,
trapped, eaten up by enemy
- 'Into the mouth of Hell' -
Metaphor, heat of battle, pain
- 'Into the valley of death' -
Metaphor, war's a road to death
- 'Half a league' -
Mile and a half
- 'Rode the six hundred'
- Repetition, Psalm 23
- 'Blunder'd' - Verb, made a
mistake, power in one persons
hand, power over whole army
- 'Charge for the guns!' -
Command, courage
- 'Canon in front' -
Approaching battle/enemy
- 'Canon' - Repetition,
noun, surrounded,
danger, battle, death
- 'Canon behind' -
Retreating, leaving battle
- Written to celebrate
bravery of soldiers
- 'Forward' - Adverb, keep going
- 'Boldly' 'Well' -
Adverbs, brave, skilled
- Honour to die for country
- 'What was a man dismay'd?' -
Rhetorical question, no fear
- 'Not the six hundred' - Unity
broken, killed, injured, less men
- Strong rhythm - Galloping
- Each stanzas represents 100 men
- 'Theirs not to make reply, theirs but to
reason why, theirs but to do and die' -
Repetition, disempowered, do what
they're told, die for country
- 'Flash'd' - Repetition, verb, not
afraid, willing to fight
- 'Thunder'd' - Verb, deafening
- 'All the world wonder'd' - Counting on them,
what happened, why didn't they win?
- 'Plunged' - Verb, surrounded, pushed in
- 'Shot and shell' -
Alliteration, bullets, bombs
- 'Cossack and Russian' - Nouns, ememies
- 'Reel'd' - Verb,
pulled away
- 'Shatter'd' - Adjective, broken
physically, broken spirit
- 'Storm'd at' - Verb,
storm of bombs, bullets
- 'Horse and hero' - Nouns, positive,
what they've done is good, not just people
- 'Came thro' the jaws of death' -
Metaphor, survivors, fought
out, should be dead
- 'Back from the mouth of Hell' -
Metaphor, carry demons with
them, not the same, made it back
- 'Left of six
hundred' - Not
all made it back
- 'When can their glory fade?' - Rhetorical
question, glorious, remembered
- 'Wild' -
Desperate, crazy
- 'Honour the charge they made!' -
Appreciate what they went through
- 'Honour the Light
Brigade' - What they
did for their country
- 'Noble six hundred!' -
Positive ending, praise,
others should do same
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