Attack (Sassoon poem) Quizzes

Attack (Sassoon poem) Quiz

1 Which point(s) of view is/are used in the poem?
First-person

Third-person

Second-person

Second and third-person
2 Describe the speaker.
The speaker is Sassoon himself.

The speaker is a commanding officer.

An unidentified speaker witnesses a battle taking place. The final plea to Jesus to stop the violence indicates that the speaker is either participating in the battle, or is speaking on behalf of the soldiers.

The speaker is a soldier who experiences shell shock as a result of the bristling fire.
3 How many lines does the poem have?
11

12

13

14
4 What poetic form does "Attack" most closely resemble?
Sestina

Epic

Villanelle

Sonnet
5 What kinds of poems deal with morning and the departure of lovers?
Love poem

Aubade

Sonnet

Shakespeare
6 Describe the sunlight in the poem.
Strong and blinding

Wild purple, glowering

Pale yellow, filtering

Bright purple, glowing
7 Define "dun"
A horse

Of a dull grayish-brown color.

The state of being finished

A bright green color
8 What first emerges in the morning light?
The tanks

The ridge

The soldiers

The trench
9 Which is not an example of alliteration?
Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud

time ticks blank and busy

The menacing scarred slope

The barrage roars and lifts
10 What is alliteration?
The repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

The use of "like" or "as" to make a comparison.

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
11 Why are the soldiers "clumsily bowed"?
They are deathly afraid.

They are weighed down by gear.

They have been crippled.

They bow to their superiors
12 What is a barrage?
A place where military gear is stored

Soldiers' accommodations

A concentrated artillery bombardment over a wide area

A battlefield
13 What does not get personified in the poem?
Hope

The mud

The sunlight

The slope
14 Which is example of personification?
They leave their trenches, going over the top,

At dawn the ridge emerges massed and dun

Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear,

And hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists, / Flounders in mud
15 What is personification?
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form

The occurrence of a poet humanizing someone.

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
16 What is the form?
Iambic pentameter, with some exceptions in syllabic stress

Free verse

Strict iambic pentameter

Blank verse
17 Finish this quote: "While time ticks__"
blank and busy on their wrists

in their chests

blank and brutal on their wrists

meaninglessly
18 Who does the speaker plead to in the final line?
God

His commanders

Jesus

His mother
19 What is the tone?
Bitter, Tragic, Reflective

Acerbic, Violent, Uncanny

Eerie, Desperate, Violent

Pointed, Angry, Violent
20 Which detail best foreshadows the violence to come?
The dawn light makes the ridge visible

Men jostle and climb to

The smoke smolders

The scarred slope is menacing
21 Which of the following is used in the poem?
Understatement

Personification

Hyperbole

Onomatopoeia
22 Which collection was this poem published in?
The Old Huntsman

Counter-Attack and Other Poems

The War Poems

Collected Poems
23 How was the collection received?
Poorly, Sassoon was then hospitalized for shell shock

Well, due to its truthful and harrowing accounts of World War I.

Well, though Sassoon was then hospitalized for shell shock

Poorly, as the details were too grotesque
24 Which of the following is not a theme?
Anonymity

Nature

The Horrors of Warfare

Explicitly Criticizing the British Public
25 Which line best demonstrates the theme of Anonymity?
Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud

And hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists

The menacing scarred slope; and, one by one,

Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear,

Attack (Sassoon poem) Questions and Answers

The Question and Answer section for Attack (Sassoon poem) is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.

Ask Your Own Question

Study Guide for Attack (Sassoon poem)

Attack (Sassoon poem) study guide contains a biography of Siegfried Sassoon, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.

Read the Study Guide for Attack (Sassoon poem)…