Attack (Sassoon poem) Quizzes

Attack (Sassoon poem) Quiz

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

Second-person

Second and third-person

First-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?
11

13

14

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

Epic

Sestina

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

Aubade

Love poem

Sonnet
6 Describe the sunlight in the poem.
Strong and blinding

Pale yellow, filtering

Wild purple, glowering

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

Of a dull grayish-brown color.

The state of being finished

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

The trench

The soldiers

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

The menacing scarred slope

time ticks blank and busy

The barrage roars and lifts
10 What is alliteration?
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

The use of "like" or "as" to make a comparison.
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?
Soldiers' accommodations

A concentrated artillery bombardment over a wide area

A place where military gear is stored

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

Hope

The mud

The sunlight
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 a poet humanizing someone.

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 the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
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 busy on their wrists

blank and brutal on their wrists

meaninglessly

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

His commanders

God

Jesus
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?
Men jostle and climb to

The smoke smolders

The dawn light makes the ridge visible

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

Onomatopoeia

Understatement

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

Poorly, Sassoon was then hospitalized for shell shock

Poorly, as the details were too grotesque

Well, though 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?
Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud

And hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists

Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear,

The menacing scarred slope; and, one by one,

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