Sound Devices
"Between the crosses, row on row", "The larks, still bravely singing, fly", "Scarce heard amid the guns below"
What is consonance?
The war that John McCrae fought in.
What is World War I?
The rhyme scheme of the first stanza
What is AABBA?
The rows of crosses.
What are gravestones?
"We are the dead."
What is a metaphor?
"We are the dead. Short days ago", "We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow", "Take up our quarrel with the foe:"
What is assonance?
The name of John McCrae's last poem.
What is "The Anxious Dead"?
The battle ground the poem is based of off.
What is Belgium's Ypres?
The type of birds flying above the battlefield.
What are larks?
"the larks, still bravely singing."
What is personification?
Flanders fields
What is alliteration?
The country John McCrae fought for.
What is Canada?
The type of poem "In Flanders Field."
What is a war poem
The name of the flowers in "Flanders Field" after the war.
What is poppies?
The symbolism of the torch.
What is duty and obligation?
"The larks, still bravely singing fly"
What is onomatopoeia?
The year John McCrae started writing.
What is 1883?
The format of stanza 1.
What is a quatrain?
The sounds that drowned out the birds during the battles.
What are gunshots?
"to you from failing hands we throw the torch."
What is a metaphor?
(2 answers) "Loved and were loved"
What is Alliteration? or What is Anaphora?
The month and year the battle in Belgium’s Ypres salient happened.
What is April of 1915?
The rhyme scheme for all 3 stanzas.
What is AABBA AABC AABBAC
(two answers) The soldiers felt this before they died at "Flanders Field."
What is the sunset? or What is dawn?
The poppies symbolize
What are the dead souls?