Attack (Sassoon poem) Quizzes

Attack (Sassoon poem) Quiz

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

First-person

Second and third-person

Third-person
2 Describe the speaker.
The speaker is a commanding officer.

The speaker is Sassoon himself.

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?
14

13

11

12
4 What poetic form does "Attack" most closely resemble?
Villanelle

Epic

Sestina

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

Aubade

Shakespeare

Sonnet
6 Describe the sunlight in the poem.
Wild purple, glowering

Bright purple, glowing

Pale yellow, filtering

Strong and blinding
7 Define "dun"
The state of being finished

A horse

A bright green color

Of a dull grayish-brown color.
8 What first emerges in the morning light?
The ridge

The trench

The tanks

The soldiers
9 Which is not an example of alliteration?
The barrage roars and lifts

The menacing scarred slope

time ticks blank and busy

Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud
10 What is alliteration?
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

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

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

They have been crippled.

They are weighed down by gear.

They are deathly afraid.
12 What is a barrage?
A place where military gear is stored

A concentrated artillery bombardment over a wide area

A battlefield

Soldiers' accommodations
13 What does not get personified in the poem?
The mud

The slope

The sunlight

Hope
14 Which is example of personification?
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

They leave their trenches, going over the top,
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?
Free verse

Strict iambic pentameter

Blank verse

Iambic pentameter, with some exceptions in syllabic stress
17 Finish this quote: "While time ticks__"
meaninglessly

in their chests

blank and busy on their wrists

blank and brutal on their wrists
18 Who does the speaker plead to in the final line?
Jesus

His commanders

God

His mother
19 What is the tone?
Eerie, Desperate, Violent

Bitter, Tragic, Reflective

Acerbic, Violent, Uncanny

Pointed, Angry, Violent
20 Which detail best foreshadows the violence to come?
Men jostle and climb to

The dawn light makes the ridge visible

The scarred slope is menacing

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

Hyperbole

Onomatopoeia

Understatement
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, as the details were too grotesque

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
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?
The menacing scarred slope; and, one by one,

Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud

And hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists

Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear,

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