Bayonet Charge

The poem starts with a man awake and running?

• True
• False

You can tell that his uniform is uncomfortable because it is:

• "raw-seamed" and "sweat heavy"
• "too tight" and "too small"

"Bullets smacking the belly out of the air".  The personification of the bullets and the air...

• Needs salt and pepper on it
• makes the bullets seem violent and the air sound as if it is being attacked
• Rhymes
• Is spelled wrong

In Ted Hughes' simile, what part of the body is the soldier's rifle compared to?

• "as pointy as Mrs Glew's nose"
• "useless as a gammy leg"
• "numb as a smashed arm"
• "a rickety spinal chord"

In which stanza does the action stop still?

• Stanza 1
• Stanza 2
• Stanza 3

What literary device does the writing use in "cold clockwork"?

• Alliteration
• Enjambment
• Hyperbole
• Soldering

There's a dream sequence in the second stanza.  This is represented by...

• A man being chased by a monster
• An alarm clock
• A man running, not really knowing why, with his foot in "mid-stride" like a statue.
• A lesson that never ends

What strange representation of nature brings us back to the battlefield in stanza 3?

• a squirrel
• a hare
• a fox
• a pike

What does the soldier drop as he runs towards the green hedge with his bayonet ready?

• His soap and toothpaste
• His cigarettes
• king, honour, human dignity etcetera
• His guts (sorry, so vulgar)

In the final line "His terror's touchy dynamite", what is it that makes the soldier dangerous?

• His stick of dynamite
• His touch
• His fear
• His breath