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.

The speaker is Sassoon himself.

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.
3 How many lines does the poem have?
12

13

11

14
4 What poetic form does "Attack" most closely resemble?
Epic

Sonnet

Sestina

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

Love poem

Shakespeare

Aubade
6 Describe the sunlight in the poem.
Bright purple, glowing

Pale yellow, filtering

Wild purple, glowering

Strong and blinding
7 Define "dun"
A bright green color

A horse

Of a dull grayish-brown color.

The state of being finished
8 What first emerges in the morning light?
The ridge

The tanks

The trench

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

The barrage roars and lifts

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 have been crippled.

They are deathly afraid.

They bow to their superiors

They are weighed down by gear.
12 What is a barrage?
Soldiers' accommodations

A battlefield

A place where military gear is stored

A concentrated artillery bombardment over a wide area
13 What does not get personified in the poem?
The sunlight

The mud

Hope

The slope
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

They leave their trenches, going over the top,

Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear,
15 What is personification?
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.

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?
Free verse

Iambic pentameter, with some exceptions in syllabic stress

Blank verse

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

meaninglessly

in their chests

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

God

His mother

Jesus
19 What is the tone?
Acerbic, Violent, Uncanny

Bitter, Tragic, Reflective

Pointed, Angry, Violent

Eerie, Desperate, Violent
20 Which detail best foreshadows the violence to come?
Men jostle and climb to

The scarred slope is menacing

The smoke smolders

The dawn light makes the ridge visible
21 Which of the following is used in the poem?
Onomatopoeia

Personification

Hyperbole

Understatement
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

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

Poorly, as the details were too grotesque

Poorly, Sassoon was then hospitalized for shell shock
24 Which of the following is not a theme?
Nature

Anonymity

The Horrors of Warfare

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

Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear,

Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud

The menacing scarred slope; and, one by one,

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