Attack (Sassoon poem) Quizzes

Attack (Sassoon poem) Quiz

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

Third-person

Second and third-person

Second-person
2 Describe the speaker.
The speaker is a soldier who experiences shell shock as a result of the bristling fire.

The speaker is a commanding officer.

The speaker is Sassoon himself.

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?
11

14

13

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

Epic

Villanelle

Sestina
5 What kinds of poems deal with morning and the departure of lovers?
Love poem

Shakespeare

Aubade

Sonnet
6 Describe the sunlight in the poem.
Pale yellow, filtering

Wild purple, glowering

Bright purple, glowing

Strong and blinding
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 soldiers

The ridge

The trench

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

time ticks blank and busy

The barrage roars and lifts

The menacing scarred slope
10 What is alliteration?
The use of "like" or "as" to make a comparison.

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

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 have been crippled.

They are deathly afraid.

They are weighed down by gear.

They bow to their superiors
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?
At dawn the ridge emerges massed and dun

They leave their trenches, going over the top,

Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear,

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

Blank verse

Strict iambic pentameter

Iambic pentameter, with some exceptions in syllabic stress
17 Finish this quote: "While time ticks__"
in their chests

blank and busy on their wrists

blank and brutal on their wrists

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

Jesus

His commanders

God
19 What is the tone?
Eerie, Desperate, Violent

Bitter, Tragic, Reflective

Acerbic, Violent, Uncanny

Pointed, Angry, Violent
20 Which detail best foreshadows the violence to come?
The dawn light makes the ridge visible

Men jostle and climb to

The smoke smolders

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

Hyperbole

Personification

Understatement
22 Which collection was this poem published in?
Counter-Attack and Other Poems

The Old Huntsman

The War Poems

Collected Poems
23 How was the collection received?
Poorly, 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

Well, though Sassoon was then hospitalized for shell shock
24 Which of the following is not a theme?
Explicitly Criticizing the British Public

The Horrors of Warfare

Nature

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

Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear,

The menacing scarred slope; and, one by one,

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