Trenches
What animal infests the trenches?
Rats
How many soldiers remained in the second company?
32
Nationality of soldiers attacking the trenches.
French
What figurative language is this?
”The first recruit seems actually to have gone insane. He butts his head against the wall like a goat.”
Similie
What do the coffins on the way to the front lines foreshadow?
Which friend of Paul’s died?
Haie Westhus
Who does Paul find hiding in a trench durring the battle?
Himmelstoss
What figurative language is:”when death is hunting us down”
personification
Who has a “feel” for danger and predicted an Ugly fight?
Katzinsky
What happens to the recruit who tries to run out of the trenches?
He gets blown up by a shell.
What weapons do the Germans use to deffend themselves aginst the French attack?
Hand grenades or Machine guns
The metaphor paul uses to show that his childhood is gone.
Picture of a dead comrade
What do the soldiers do to their bayonets?
Remove “saw teeth” on the blade.
What the soldiers look for for 3 days after the battle
a dying, wounded, screaming soldier.
The image of a soldier running without feet or a soldier whithout a head shows the thematic topic of…
horror and brutality of war
The type of food soldiers recieve that symbolizes and foreshadows and upcoming battle.
Edamer cheese
How long are the soldiers in the trenches?
around 14 days
What is the ratio for young to old soldiers deaths?
”Five or ten die for each one of the more experienced soldiers”
What Paul describes the soldiers as they fight for their lives.
Wild beasts
What are the tenches described as while the soldiers wait to be shelled?
a cage