1 Which point(s) of view is/are used in the poem? First-person Second-person Third-person Second and third-person 2 Describe the speaker. 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. The speaker is a soldier who experiences shell shock as a result of the bristling fire. 3 How many lines does the poem have? 12 11 13 14 4 What poetic form does "Attack" most closely resemble? Epic Villanelle Sestina Sonnet 5 What kinds of poems deal with morning and the departure of lovers? Shakespeare Love poem Sonnet Aubade 6 Describe the sunlight in the poem. Strong and blinding Wild purple, glowering Bright purple, glowing Pale yellow, filtering 7 Define "dun" The state of being finished A bright green color Of a dull grayish-brown color. A horse 8 What first emerges in the morning light? The ridge The soldiers 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 menacing scarred slope The barrage roars and lifts 10 What is alliteration? 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. 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? A place where military gear is stored Soldiers' accommodations A battlefield A concentrated artillery bombardment over a wide area 13 What does not get personified in the poem? The mud The sunlight The slope Hope 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 Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear, They leave their trenches, going over the top, 15 What is personification? 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 The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words 16 What is the form? Blank verse Free verse Iambic pentameter, with some exceptions in syllabic stress Strict iambic pentameter 17 Finish this quote: "While time ticks__" meaninglessly in their chests blank and brutal on their wrists blank and busy on their wrists 18 Who does the speaker plead to in the final line? God His mother Jesus His commanders 19 What is the tone? Eerie, Desperate, Violent Pointed, Angry, Violent Bitter, Tragic, Reflective Acerbic, Violent, Uncanny 20 Which detail best foreshadows the violence to come? The scarred slope is menacing Men jostle and climb to The smoke smolders The dawn light makes the ridge visible 21 Which of the following is used in the poem? Hyperbole Understatement Personification Onomatopoeia 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, though 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 24 Which of the following is not a theme? Explicitly Criticizing the British Public Anonymity The Horrors of Warfare Nature 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 The menacing scarred slope; and, one by one, Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear,