Pot Luck
Language
Who wrote it
Finish the line.
Dulce Et Decorum Est
Finish the line.
Homecoming
100
What war is "Homecoming" about?
Vietnam
100
What language device is used in the following: "All day, day after day"
Repetition
100
Who wrote 'Homecoming'?
Bruce Dawe
100

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through ______?,

sludge

100
All day, day after day, they’re bringing them ____,
home
200
Name a gas used in WW1
Chlorine or Mustard
200
What language device is used in the following: "He put a bullet through his brain. No one spoke of him again."
Rhyme
200
Who wrote "Dulce Et Decorum Est" ?
Wilfred Owen
200

In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, He plunges at me, guttering, ________, drowning.

choking

200
they’re zipping them up in green , _______ ____
plastic bags
300
How many weeks before the end of WW1 did Wilfred Owen die?
One
300

What language device is used in the following: "down to wet", "nipper kin", "traps", and "half-a-crown";"

Colloquialism / Vernacular / Slang

300

Who wrote 'An Irish Airman Foresees his Death?'

William Butler Yeats

300

And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's ____ __ ___;

sick of sin

300
the noble jets are _______ ____ ______,
whining like hounds
400
What does The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mor mean?
It is sweet and right to die for your country.
400

What language device is used in the following: "and on to cities in whose wide web of suburbs"

Alliteration

400
Who wrote 'Suicide in the Trenches'?
Siegfried Sassoon
400
My friend, you would not tell with such high _____
Zest
400
on to small towns where dogs in the frozen sunset _____ _______ in ____ ______,
raise muzzles in mute salute
500
Name the four types of hair cuts mentioned in "Homecoming".
– curly- heads, kinky hairs, crew-cuts, balding non-coms
500

What language device is used in the following: "...we turned our backs..." (from Dulce Et Decorum Est)

Synecdoche

500

Who wrote "The Man He Killed" ?

Thomas Hardy

500
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est ___ ______ ____.
Pro patria mori
500
and the spider grief swings in his bitter geometry – they’re bring them home, ___, ___ ____, ___ _____.
now, too late, too early.
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