Attack (Sassoon poem) Quizzes

Attack (Sassoon poem) Quiz

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

Second and third-person

Second-person

First-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?
14

12

13

11
4 What poetic form does "Attack" most closely resemble?
Sonnet

Epic

Villanelle

Sestina
5 What kinds of poems deal with morning and the departure of lovers?
Shakespeare

Aubade

Sonnet

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

Strong and blinding

Wild purple, glowering

Bright purple, glowing
7 Define "dun"
Of a dull grayish-brown color.

The state of being finished

A horse

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

The trench

The ridge

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

The barrage roars and lifts

The menacing scarred slope

time ticks blank and busy
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 repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible

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.
11 Why are the soldiers "clumsily bowed"?
They are deathly afraid.

They bow to their superiors

They have been crippled.

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?
The mud

The sunlight

Hope

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

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

At dawn the ridge emerges massed and dun

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

The occurrence of a poet humanizing someone.

The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form
16 What is the form?
Blank verse

Strict iambic pentameter

Free verse

Iambic pentameter, with some exceptions in syllabic stress
17 Finish this quote: "While time ticks__"
blank and brutal on their wrists

in their chests

meaninglessly

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

God

His commanders

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

Acerbic, Violent, Uncanny

Pointed, Angry, Violent

Bitter, Tragic, Reflective
20 Which detail best foreshadows the violence to come?
The dawn light makes the ridge visible

The smoke smolders

The scarred slope is menacing

Men jostle and climb to
21 Which of the following is used in the poem?
Personification

Onomatopoeia

Hyperbole

Understatement
22 Which collection was this poem published in?
Collected Poems

Counter-Attack and Other Poems

The Old Huntsman

The War 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.

Poorly, as the details were too grotesque

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

Anonymity

Explicitly Criticizing the British Public

Nature
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

Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear,

The menacing scarred slope; and, one by one,

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