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 and third-person

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

The speaker is a commanding officer.

The speaker is a soldier who experiences shell shock as a result of the bristling fire.

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.
3 How many lines does the poem have?
11

14

12

13
4 What poetic form does "Attack" most closely resemble?
Sestina

Villanelle

Epic

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

Shakespeare

Sonnet

Aubade
6 Describe the sunlight in the poem.
Pale yellow, filtering

Strong and blinding

Bright purple, glowing

Wild purple, glowering
7 Define "dun"
Of a dull grayish-brown color.

A bright green color

A horse

The state of being finished
8 What first emerges in the morning light?
The soldiers

The trench

The ridge

The tanks
9 Which is not an example of alliteration?
The menacing scarred slope

The barrage roars and lifts

time ticks blank and busy

Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud
10 What is alliteration?
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

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
11 Why are the soldiers "clumsily bowed"?
They bow to their superiors

They have been crippled.

They are deathly afraid.

They are weighed down by gear.
12 What is a barrage?
Soldiers' accommodations

A place where military gear is stored

A concentrated artillery bombardment over a wide area

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

The mud

The slope

The sunlight
14 Which is example of personification?
At dawn the ridge emerges massed and dun

And hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists, / Flounders in mud

They leave their trenches, going over the top,

Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear,
15 What is personification?
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 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
16 What is the form?
Blank verse

Free verse

Strict iambic pentameter

Iambic pentameter, with some exceptions in syllabic stress
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

His mother

Jesus
19 What is the tone?
Eerie, Desperate, Violent

Acerbic, Violent, Uncanny

Bitter, Tragic, Reflective

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 scarred slope is menacing

The smoke smolders
21 Which of the following is used in the poem?
Understatement

Personification

Hyperbole

Onomatopoeia
22 Which collection was this poem published in?
The War Poems

Collected Poems

Counter-Attack and Other Poems

The Old Huntsman
23 How was the collection received?
Poorly, Sassoon was then hospitalized for shell shock

Poorly, as the details were too grotesque

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

Well, though Sassoon was then hospitalized for shell shock
24 Which of the following is not a theme?
The Horrors of Warfare

Nature

Anonymity

Explicitly Criticizing the British Public
25 Which line best demonstrates the theme of Anonymity?
And hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists

Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud

The menacing scarred slope; and, one by one,

Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear,

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