Attack (Sassoon poem) Quizzes

Attack (Sassoon poem) Quiz

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

Second and third-person

Third-person

Second-person
2 Describe the speaker.
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.

The speaker is Sassoon himself.
3 How many lines does the poem have?
14

13

12

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

Sestina

Epic

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

Sonnet

Shakespeare

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

Wild purple, glowering

Strong and blinding

Bright purple, glowing
7 Define "dun"
A horse

The state of being finished

Of a dull grayish-brown color.

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

The tanks

The soldiers

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

Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud

The menacing scarred slope

The barrage roars and lifts
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 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

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 have been crippled.

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

Soldiers' accommodations

A concentrated artillery bombardment over a wide area

A battlefield
13 What does not get personified in the poem?
Hope

The slope

The mud

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

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
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 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
16 What is the form?
Iambic pentameter, with some exceptions in syllabic stress

Blank verse

Free verse

Strict iambic pentameter
17 Finish this quote: "While time ticks__"
blank and brutal on their wrists

meaninglessly

blank and busy on their wrists

in their chests
18 Who does the speaker plead to in the final line?
Jesus

His mother

His commanders

God
19 What is the tone?
Eerie, Desperate, Violent

Pointed, Angry, Violent

Acerbic, Violent, Uncanny

Bitter, Tragic, Reflective
20 Which detail best foreshadows the violence to come?
The scarred slope is menacing

The dawn light makes the ridge visible

Men jostle and climb to

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

Personification

Onomatopoeia

Hyperbole
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, though 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?
The Horrors of Warfare

Nature

Anonymity

Explicitly Criticizing the British Public
25 Which line best demonstrates the theme of Anonymity?
And hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists

The menacing scarred slope; and, one by one,

Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear,

Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud

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