coltb

• half a league - league is 3 miles long - can show quality but also how they are not up to the challange ahead
• valley of death - biblical allusion
• vally of death - connotations of hell
• how is repetitions used in the poem?

  builds tension and drags out the charge
• what is the affect of - cannon to the left , cannon to the right , cannon infront of them 


  repetition shows how they are outnumbered
• what is the connotations of - mouth of hell - 


  personifies death - futility and bravery of soldiers.Shows how the soldiers are going to die so bravely
• what is meant by 'sabres' 


  sabres - swords
• all the world wondered

  hyperbole - shows the scale of there mistake
• tennyson uses the repetition of cannon to the right , cannon to the left and cannon in front to show how how they charged in so fast and then how in parallel they charged out so fast
• when can their glory fade?


  rhetorical question - not that sad but they die but is just more concerned about their glory and how they will be remembered
• nobal six hundred 


  imperative - ordering people to give their respects to the soldiers.Tennyson that the soldiers should be honored like heros
• Imperative - Instructions
• the poem is suggesting that heros have been made from this conflict.Tennyson wants to show their bravery and strength
• who wrote cotlb?

  Lord Tennyson
• the light brigade was a very lightly equipped,more for scouting or attacking from the back or sides rather from in front