Attack (Sassoon poem) Quizzes

Attack (Sassoon poem) Quiz

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

Third-person

Second and third-person

First-person
2 Describe the speaker.
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.

The speaker is Sassoon himself.
3 How many lines does the poem have?
13

12

14

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

Sonnet

Epic

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

Aubade

Shakespeare

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

Strong and blinding

Pale yellow, filtering

Bright purple, glowing
7 Define "dun"
A horse

Of a dull grayish-brown color.

A bright green color

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

The ridge

The soldiers

The tanks
9 Which is not an example of alliteration?
time ticks blank and busy

The barrage roars and lifts

Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud

The menacing scarred slope
10 What is alliteration?
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.

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 bow to their superiors

They have been crippled.
12 What is a barrage?
Soldiers' accommodations

A battlefield

A concentrated artillery bombardment over a wide area

A place where military gear is stored
13 What does not get personified in the poem?
The sunlight

The slope

The mud

Hope
14 Which is example of personification?
Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear,

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

At dawn the ridge emerges massed and dun

They leave their trenches, going over the top,
15 What is personification?
The occurrence of a poet humanizing someone.

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

The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form

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?
Strict iambic pentameter

Free verse

Iambic pentameter, with some exceptions in syllabic stress

Blank verse
17 Finish this quote: "While time ticks__"
meaninglessly

blank and busy on their wrists

in their chests

blank and brutal 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?
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 War Poems

Counter-Attack and Other Poems

The Old Huntsman

Collected Poems
23 How was the collection received?
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

Poorly, Sassoon was then hospitalized for shell shock
24 Which of the following is not a theme?
Nature

Anonymity

The Horrors of Warfare

Explicitly Criticizing the British Public
25 Which line best demonstrates the theme of Anonymity?
The menacing scarred slope; and, one by one,

Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear,

And hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists

Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud

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