Attack (Sassoon poem) Quizzes

Attack (Sassoon poem) Quiz

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

First-person

Second and third-person

Third-person
2 Describe the speaker.
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.

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

13

14

12
4 What poetic form does "Attack" most closely resemble?
Sonnet

Villanelle

Epic

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

Sonnet

Aubade

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

Wild purple, glowering

Strong and blinding

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 trench

The ridge

The tanks

The soldiers
9 Which is not an example of alliteration?
The menacing scarred slope

The barrage roars and lifts

Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud

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 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.
11 Why are the soldiers "clumsily bowed"?
They are weighed down by gear.

They are deathly afraid.

They bow to their superiors

They have been crippled.
12 What is a barrage?
A concentrated artillery bombardment over a wide area

A place where military gear is stored

Soldiers' accommodations

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

The slope

The sunlight

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

At dawn the ridge emerges massed and dun

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

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

The occurrence of a poet humanizing someone.

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
16 What is the form?
Blank verse

Strict iambic pentameter

Iambic pentameter, with some exceptions in syllabic stress

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

blank and busy on their wrists

blank and brutal on their wrists

meaninglessly
18 Who does the speaker plead to in the final line?
God

Jesus

His mother

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

Acerbic, Violent, Uncanny

Bitter, Tragic, Reflective

Pointed, Angry, Violent
20 Which detail best foreshadows the violence to come?
The smoke smolders

Men jostle and climb to

The dawn light makes the ridge visible

The scarred slope is menacing
21 Which of the following is used in the poem?
Personification

Understatement

Onomatopoeia

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

The War Poems

Counter-Attack and Other Poems

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

Poorly, Sassoon was then hospitalized for shell shock

Poorly, as the details were too grotesque

Well, due to its truthful and harrowing accounts of World War I.
24 Which of the following is not a theme?
Anonymity

The Horrors of Warfare

Explicitly Criticizing the British Public

Nature
25 Which line best demonstrates the theme of Anonymity?
The menacing scarred slope; and, one by one,

And hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists

Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear,

Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud

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