1 Which best describes the poem's speaker? Omniscient, third-person; addresses the reader using second-person Unidentified, third-person All-knowing, first-person, addresses the reader using second-person Omniscient, third-person; addresses the soldier using second-person 2 Describe the form. Seven stanzas composed of different lengths Six sextets Seven sextets Six stanzas composed of different lengths 3 What senses are engaged in this poem? Visual Auditory, gustatory, olfactory Visual, tactile, auditory All senses 4 Which of the following is not a metaphor in the poem? Water "his mortal shore / Lipped by the inward, moonless waves of death" "in the wings of sleep" "silence heaped / Round him, unshaken as the steadfast walls" 5 Which best describes a metaphor? A word or phrase used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid effec The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words A comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated using the words "like" or "as" A description of one thing by way of another, unrelated thing 6 Which is not an example of alliteration? "Light many lamps and gather round his bed. / Lend him your...will to live" "And there was silence in the summer night; / Silence and safety; and the veils of sleep" "Silence and safety" "That soak the woods; not the harsh rain" 7 What is alliteration? A word or phrase used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid effect The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words A comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated using the words "like" or "as" A comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated 8 What is the reader implored to do? Enlist and fight. Row down a river. Protest the war by writing letters. Care for the dying soldier's physical and energetic needs. 9 What is the major conflict of the poem? World War Two Death does not care about justice Whether or not the young soldier will encounter his death World War One 10 Which quote best foreshadows the soldier's death? "Shuddering because that evil thing had passed." "He swallowed, unresisting; moaned and dropped" "Gently and slowly washing life away" "Rain—he could hear it rustling through the dark;" 11 Which is an example of onomatopoeia? trickling flickered music thudding 12 What collection was this poem published in? The War Poems of Sigfried Sassoon Counter-Attack and Other Poems The Daffodil Murderer The Old Huntsman and Other Poems 13 What is Sassoon best known for today? His romantic pastoral poetry His novels His satires His angry and compassionate anti-war poems 14 Which fellow soldier-poet named "The Death Bed" as the "finest poem" in the collection? Isaac Rosenberg Robert Graves Rupert Brooke Wilfred Owen 15 Which of the following is not a theme in the poem? Criticizing the Military Establishment Satirizing military authority Death and Sleep as a Journey Mortality 16 Who or what is personified in the poem? death death and the soldier's pain the soldier an animal that broke into the ward 17 What is personification? 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 A word or phrase used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid effect A comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated using the words "like" or "as" 18 What does water symbolize? The fluid state of the soldier's consciousness The soldier's acceptance of his death Summertime Tranquility 19 Why are the guns at the end specified as "the"? There is no reason for the specification They refer to the guns the soldier used in battle They refer to the conflict of World War I They refer to the conflict of World War II 20 Why is death not capitalized in the poem? Unspecified, but perhaps to suggest a humble sense Because it is an inanimate process. Unspecified, but perhaps to suggest a weak sense Death is capitalized in the poem 21 Where in the poem does Sassoon clarify that the drowsing man is dying? In the second-to-last stanza In the final line Never In the first stanza 22 Which words become an anaphora? Light and summer Summer and night Water and summer Water and night 23 Finish this quote: "Lipped by the inward, moonless__" waves of death night sky waves of pain starless sky 24 What is anaphora? 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 The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. A comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated 25 Why does the speaker give a false sense of hope that the soldier will live? To show that there is always hope To increase the poem's tension by prolonging the death To cruelly trick the reader To show that justice prevails when there is hope