BAYONET CHARGE

• "Suddenly he awoke and was running" - starts in media res which reflects a relentless, rushed tone
• "his sweat heavy" - reflects the physical impact of war
• "Bullets smacking the belly out of the air" - plosives are mimetic of bullets firing which creates an aggressive atmosphere
• "He lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm" - verb suggests the weapon is a burden + simile suggests that the 'rifle' is like a damaged limb/useless
• "Sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest" - simile connotes extreme pain and permanent suffering
• "In bewilderment then he almost stopped-" - hyphen reflects the soldier actually pausing to think about the point of war
• "In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations" - mechanical imagery suggesting that war has become routine and supposedly needed for society to work
• "Listening between his footfalls for the reason" - emphasises a moment of internal reflection amid chaos trying to find meaning for these conflicts
• "Then the shot-slashed furrows" - repeated 's' sound alliteration symbolises the harshness of gunfire + compound adjective suggests brutal destruction + 'furrows' represent life and nature
• "yellow hare / its mouth wide / its eyes standing out" - animal imagery to highlight vulnerability and innocence being destroyed by the world
• "King, honour, human dignity, etcetera" - list of abstract ideals which reflect the patriotic justifications for going to war + 'etcetera' is casual and dismissive emphasising the soldiers views that war is futile
• "His terror's touchy dynamite" - metaphor for the soldiers fear being like explosive 'dynamite' + personification of fear suggesting it is an alive, volatile force with the ability to control him