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