Attack (Sassoon poem) Quizzes

Attack (Sassoon poem) Quiz

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

Second-person

First-person

Second and third-person

Third-person
2 Describe the speaker.

The speaker is a soldier who experiences shell shock as a result of the bristling fire.

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 Sassoon himself.

The speaker is a commanding officer.
3 How many lines does the poem have?

13

14

12

11
4 What poetic form does "Attack" most closely resemble?

Sestina

Sonnet

Epic

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

Aubade

Shakespeare

Sonnet

Love poem
6 Describe the sunlight in the poem.

Strong and blinding

Pale yellow, filtering

Wild purple, glowering

Bright purple, glowing
7 Define "dun"

A bright green color

The state of being finished

A horse

Of a dull grayish-brown color.
8 What first emerges in the morning light?

The ridge

The trench

The soldiers

The tanks
9 Which is not an example of alliteration?

Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud

The menacing scarred slope

time ticks blank and busy

The barrage roars and lifts
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 bow to their superiors

They are deathly afraid.

They are weighed down by gear.

They have been crippled.
12 What is a barrage?

A concentrated artillery bombardment over a wide area

A place where military gear is stored

A battlefield

Soldiers' accommodations
13 What does not get personified in the poem?

The slope

The mud

The sunlight

Hope
14 Which is example of personification?

They leave their trenches, going over the top,

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,
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?

Iambic pentameter, with some exceptions in syllabic stress

Strict iambic pentameter

Blank verse

Free verse
17 Finish this quote: "While time ticks__"

blank and busy on their wrists

blank and brutal on their wrists

meaninglessly

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

His commanders

His mother

God

Jesus
19 What is the tone?

Bitter, Tragic, Reflective

Pointed, Angry, Violent

Eerie, Desperate, Violent

Acerbic, Violent, Uncanny
20 Which detail best foreshadows the violence to come?

The smoke smolders

Men jostle and climb to

The scarred slope is menacing

The dawn light makes the ridge visible
21 Which of the following is used in the poem?

Personification

Onomatopoeia

Hyperbole

Understatement
22 Which collection was this poem published in?

Counter-Attack and Other Poems

Collected Poems

The War Poems

The Old Huntsman
23 How was the collection received?

Well, though Sassoon was then hospitalized for shell shock

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
24 Which of the following is not a theme?

Anonymity

Explicitly Criticizing the British Public

Nature

The Horrors of Warfare
25 Which line best demonstrates the theme of Anonymity?

Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear,

Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud

The menacing scarred slope; and, one by one,

And hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists

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