The Charge of the Light Brigade [Alfred Tennyson] - Form 4
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Hadijah Jaffri
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English
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11th Grade
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641 plays
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Medium
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1.
Multiple Choice
Which of the following lines personify death and hell and make them seem like an imminent doom that brave soldiers cannot defeat or escape?
Into the jaws of Death,/Into the mouth of Hell (stanza 3 lines 24-25)
Stormed at with shot and shell/Boldly the rode and well (stanza 3 lines -22-23)
Cannon to the right of them/Cannon to the left of them (stanza 3 lines 18-19)
Into the valley of Death/Rode the six hundred (stanza 1 lines 7-8)
2.
Multiple Choice
Repetition of phrases such as " the Mouth of Hell"
Repetition of "Cannon to the right of them/Cannon to the left of them"
Repetition of "the six hundred" at the end of every stanza
The use adverbs such as "boldly" and the use of verbs such as " charging"
3.
Multiple Choice
What attitude does the speaker have towards the six hundred soldiers?
He thinks the generals are at fault for their deaths
He thinks their legacy should be one of honor
He thinks politicians should prevent this from happening again
He thinks they deserved what they got
4.
Multiple Choice
"Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them" [line 18 to 19]
What can the reader infer about the battle based on those two lines?
Note: Infer means conclude, extrapolate, draw conclusion/ inference
The soldiers were attacked through outpouring of guns and cannon balls at once
The soldiers used cannon to attack their enemy
The enemy was attacked by cannon
Cannons were used as the main weapon in the war
5.
Multiple Choice
How many soldiers were there who rode into the valley of death?
600 soldiers
400 soldiers
500 soldiers
1000 soldiers
6.
Multiple Choice
How was the six hundred soldiers described in the poem?
They were very brave
They were very scared
They were tired and very old
They were very eager
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