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

First-person

Third-person
2 Describe the speaker.
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.

The speaker is a commanding officer.
3 How many lines does the poem have?
11

12

14

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?
Shakespeare

Love poem

Aubade

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

Strong and blinding

Pale yellow, filtering

Bright purple, glowing
7 Define "dun"
A bright green color

Of a dull grayish-brown color.

A horse

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?
The menacing scarred slope

Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud

The barrage roars and lifts

time ticks blank and busy
10 What is alliteration?
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.

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 are deathly afraid.

They have been crippled.

They are weighed down by gear.

They bow to their superiors
12 What is a barrage?
A battlefield

A concentrated artillery bombardment over a wide area

Soldiers' accommodations

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

The slope

The sunlight

The mud
14 Which is example of personification?
And hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists, / Flounders in mud

Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear,

They leave their trenches, going over the top,

At dawn the ridge emerges massed and dun
15 What is personification?
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.

The occurrence of a poet humanizing someone.
16 What is the form?
Strict iambic pentameter

Blank verse

Iambic pentameter, with some exceptions in syllabic stress

Free verse
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?
Jesus

God

His mother

His commanders
19 What is the tone?
Acerbic, Violent, Uncanny

Pointed, Angry, Violent

Eerie, Desperate, 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?
Understatement

Hyperbole

Personification

Onomatopoeia
22 Which collection was this poem published in?
The Old Huntsman

Collected Poems

The War Poems

Counter-Attack and Other Poems
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

Anonymity

The Horrors of Warfare
25 Which line best demonstrates the theme of Anonymity?
Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear,

And hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists

The menacing scarred slope; and, one by one,

Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud

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