Attack (Sassoon poem) Quizzes

Attack (Sassoon poem) Quiz

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

Second and third-person

Third-person

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

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.

The speaker is a commanding officer.
3 How many lines does the poem have?
14

12

13

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

Sonnet

Sestina

Epic
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.
Strong and blinding

Bright purple, glowing

Pale yellow, filtering

Wild purple, glowering
7 Define "dun"
The state of being finished

Of a dull grayish-brown color.

A horse

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

The ridge

The tanks

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

Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud

time ticks blank and busy

The menacing scarred slope
10 What is alliteration?
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

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

They are weighed down by gear.

They are deathly afraid.

They have been crippled.
12 What is a barrage?
A battlefield

A concentrated artillery bombardment over a wide area

A place where military gear is stored

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

The mud

The sunlight

Hope
14 Which is example of personification?
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,

They leave their trenches, going over the top,
15 What is personification?
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

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

Strict iambic pentameter

Blank verse

Free verse
17 Finish this quote: "While time ticks__"
in their chests

blank and busy on their wrists

meaninglessly

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

God

Jesus

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 scarred slope is menacing

Men jostle and climb to

The smoke smolders

The dawn light makes the ridge visible
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

Counter-Attack and Other Poems

Collected Poems

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

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.
24 Which of the following is not a theme?
Explicitly Criticizing the British Public

Nature

The Horrors of Warfare

Anonymity
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

Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear,

The menacing scarred slope; and, one by one,

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