1. 5-a-Day What was Hedd Wyn’s real name?
What does Hedd Wyn mean in Welsh?
‘Flynn stills burns with righteous anger at the stupidity and pointlessness of war’. What technique does Giles Fraser use here? Effect?
On the first day of which WWI battle was Hedd Wyn killed?
‘I am always conscious that remembrance is a little too easily purloined by those who want to celebrate precisely the sort of militarism and nationalistic chauvinism that led so many young men to pointless deaths.’ What does this mean?
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2. 5-a-Day
What was Hedd Wyn’s real name? Ellis Humphrey Evans.
What does Hedd Wyn mean in Welsh? Blessed peace.
‘Flynn stills burns with righteous anger at the stupidity and pointlessness of war’. What technique does Giles Fraser use here? Effect? Metaphor.
On the first day of which WWI battle was Hedd Wyn killed? Passchendaele.
‘I am always conscious that remembrance is a little too easily purloined by those who want to celebrate precisely the sort of militarism and nationalistic chauvinism that led so many young men to pointless deaths.’ What does this mean?
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