Question

Which of these lines shows the climax, the highest point of rising action, in the poem?

1)

Flashed all their sabres bare,

2)

Sabring the gunners there,

Charging an army, while

All the world wondered.


3)

Plunged in the battery-smoke

Right through the line they broke;

Cossack and Russian


4)

Reeled from the sabre stroke

Shattered and sundered.

Then they rode back, but not

Not the six hundred.

Answer 1

Answer: Line 4: "Reeled from the sabre stroke / Shattered and sundered" shows the climax, the highest point of rising action, in the poem.