Attack (Sassoon poem) Quizzes

Attack (Sassoon poem) Quiz

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

Second-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.

The speaker is Sassoon himself.

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.
3 How many lines does the poem have?
13

11

14

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

Sestina

Epic

Sonnet
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.
Pale yellow, filtering

Strong and blinding

Wild purple, glowering

Bright purple, glowing
7 Define "dun"
Of a dull grayish-brown color.

A bright green color

The state of being finished

A horse
8 What first emerges in the morning light?
The trench

The ridge

The tanks

The soldiers
9 Which is not an example of alliteration?
Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud

time ticks blank and busy

The menacing scarred slope

The barrage roars and lifts
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 weighed down by gear.

They have been crippled.

They bow to their superiors

They are deathly afraid.
12 What is a barrage?
A concentrated artillery bombardment over a wide area

Soldiers' accommodations

A place where military gear is stored

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

The sunlight

The slope

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

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

Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear,

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 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?
Strict iambic pentameter

Iambic pentameter, with some exceptions in syllabic stress

Free verse

Blank verse
17 Finish this quote: "While time ticks__"
blank and busy on their wrists

meaninglessly

blank and brutal on their wrists

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

God

Jesus

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 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?
Hyperbole

Onomatopoeia

Understatement

Personification
22 Which collection was this poem published in?
The War Poems

The Old Huntsman

Collected Poems

Counter-Attack and Other Poems
23 How was the collection received?
Poorly, as the details were too grotesque

Well, due to its truthful and harrowing accounts of World War I.

Well, though Sassoon was then hospitalized for shell shock

Poorly, Sassoon was then hospitalized for shell shock
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

The menacing scarred slope; and, one by one,

Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear,

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