Attack (Sassoon poem) Quizzes

Attack (Sassoon poem) Quiz

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

Second-person

Third-person

First-person
2 Describe the speaker.
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 commanding officer.

The speaker is Sassoon himself.

The speaker is a soldier who experiences shell shock as a result of the bristling fire.
3 How many lines does the poem have?
13

11

14

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

Sestina

Villanelle

Epic
5 What kinds of poems deal with morning and the departure of lovers?
Aubade

Love poem

Sonnet

Shakespeare
6 Describe the sunlight in the poem.
Wild purple, glowering

Pale yellow, filtering

Bright purple, glowing

Strong and blinding
7 Define "dun"
Of a dull grayish-brown color.

A horse

The state of being finished

A bright green color
8 What first emerges in the morning light?
The trench

The ridge

The soldiers

The tanks
9 Which is not an example of alliteration?
The barrage roars and lifts

The menacing scarred slope

time ticks blank and busy

Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud
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 have been crippled.

They bow to their superiors

They are weighed down by gear.

They are deathly afraid.
12 What is a barrage?
Soldiers' accommodations

A place where military gear is stored

A concentrated artillery bombardment over a wide area

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

Hope

The slope

The sunlight
14 Which is example of personification?
At dawn the ridge emerges massed and dun

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

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 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
16 What is the form?
Blank verse

Iambic pentameter, with some exceptions in syllabic stress

Free verse

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

blank and busy on their wrists

meaninglessly

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

Jesus

God

His mother
19 What is the tone?
Bitter, Tragic, Reflective

Eerie, Desperate, Violent

Acerbic, Violent, Uncanny

Pointed, Angry, Violent
20 Which detail best foreshadows the violence to come?
The scarred slope is menacing

The dawn light makes the ridge visible

The smoke smolders

Men jostle and climb to
21 Which of the following is used in the poem?
Onomatopoeia

Personification

Understatement

Hyperbole
22 Which collection was this poem published in?
Collected Poems

The Old Huntsman

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, as the details were too grotesque

Well, though Sassoon was then hospitalized for shell shock

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

Explicitly Criticizing the British Public

The Horrors of Warfare

Nature
25 Which line best demonstrates the theme of Anonymity?
And hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists

Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud

The menacing scarred slope; and, one by one,

Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear,

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