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A comparative PEAD model English: 3 of 3

Key Vocabulary

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written to encourage men to join the war effort reassuring
them that if they joined up it would be nothing to be 1 1 A Audience A group of people that are watching, reading or listening to
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scared of. Whereas a totally different attitude is given by
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‘Dulce et Decorum est’ where Owen describes the 2 2 B Blank verse Un-rhymed lines of poetry.
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tragedies and horrors of war based on first-hand Two lines of poetry that come next to each other, usually
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Both poets use figurative language to present war. In 4 4 D Dramatic Irony y When the audience knows something before the characters.
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‘Who’s for the Game’ Pope uses an extended metaphor 5 5 S Symbolism The use of a sign, shape or object to represent something
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to make a comparison between war and a ‘game’ giving
the indication that war is easy: ‘the red crashing game of 6 6 T Theme An important idea that runs throughout a film, play or piece of
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a fight’. The metaphor deliberately misled the original writing.
readers, making it sound ‘fun’. The word ‘fight’ is used, G Grow your vocabulary
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again deliberately, to make it sound less catastrophic A serious disagreement or argument about something.
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than the reality WW1 soldiers faced. Pope does this as it 7 7 C Conflict t
makes the poem sound light-hearted and persuasive. 8 8 P Patriarchal l A family or system where men are the most important and
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Whereas Own uses a simile to present the harsh reality powerful.
of war: ‘Bent double, like old beggars under sacks’. By 9 9 A Adversary Someone you are competing, fighting or arguing against.
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comparing young men to elderly vagrants, Owen is
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illustrating the terrible impact war has on soldiers. The 1 10 C Circumstance A situation or events which affects what happens.
imagery of then being ‘bent double’ highlights the 1 11 D Dishonour r Behaving in a way that damages someone’s good reputation.
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suffering and physical burden they are under drawing 1 12 H Hierarchy People organised into different levels according to importance.
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sympathy from the readers. This contradicts the false
impression created by Pope, presenting the more brutal 1 13 F Fate A power that decides everything that happens and cannot be
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