Background & Context
Year the Great War began
When is 1914?
Device used in line 19
What is alliteration?
Main theme of the poem
What is war/war violence?
Device used in lines 20 and 23
What is a simile?
Rhyming style of the poem
What is sonnet rhyming?
Event that triggered the Great War
What is the assassination of Franz Ferdinand?
Poem's structure
What is two sonnets?
Theme highlighted in stanza 1
What is suffering?
Device used in the phrase "drunk with fatigue"
What is a metaphor?
Meaning of the title
What is "It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country"?
Policy of mandatory military service
What is conscription?
Poem's tone
What is critical/melancholy/pitiful/bitter?
Theme highlighted in the final two lines of stanza 4
What is patriotism?
Device used in lines 9 and 26
What is an oxymoron?
Roman poet who coined the phrase in the title
Who is Horace?
Overall death toll of the Great War
What is 17 million people?
Device used in line 20
What is allusion?
Theme which the "Old Lie" refers to
What is propaganda?
Device used to evoke the idea of sounds
What is onomatopoeia?
The compound that caused the death of the soldier
What is mustard gas?
Wilfred Owen's native country
Where is Great Britain?
Device used to describe the soldier's death
Theme highlighted by the "drowning" soldier
What is death/reality of war?
Device used to "paint the picture"
What is imagery?
Writer who Owen addresses as "friend" in stanza 4
Who is Jessie Pope?