Attack (Sassoon poem) Quizzes

Attack (Sassoon poem) Quiz

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

Third-person

Second-person

First-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 a commanding officer.

The speaker is Sassoon himself.
3 How many lines does the poem have?
12

14

11

13
4 What poetic form does "Attack" most closely resemble?
Sestina

Epic

Sonnet

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.
Bright purple, glowing

Pale yellow, filtering

Wild purple, glowering

Strong and blinding
7 Define "dun"
A horse

A bright green color

Of a dull grayish-brown color.

The state of being finished
8 What first emerges in the morning light?
The ridge

The trench

The tanks

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

The menacing scarred slope

Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud

time ticks blank and busy
10 What is alliteration?
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.

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
11 Why are the soldiers "clumsily bowed"?
They are deathly afraid.

They have been crippled.

They are weighed down by gear.

They bow to their superiors
12 What is a barrage?
A concentrated artillery bombardment over a wide area

A battlefield

Soldiers' accommodations

A place where military gear is stored
13 What does not get personified in the poem?
Hope

The mud

The slope

The sunlight
14 Which is example of personification?
Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear,

They leave their trenches, going over the top,

At dawn the ridge emerges massed and dun

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

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

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
16 What is the form?
Free verse

Strict iambic pentameter

Blank verse

Iambic pentameter, with some exceptions in syllabic stress
17 Finish this quote: "While time ticks__"
blank and brutal on their wrists

in their chests

meaninglessly

blank and busy on their wrists
18 Who does the speaker plead to in the final line?
God

His commanders

His mother

Jesus
19 What is the tone?
Bitter, Tragic, Reflective

Pointed, Angry, Violent

Acerbic, Violent, Uncanny

Eerie, Desperate, Violent
20 Which detail best foreshadows the violence to come?
The smoke smolders

The dawn light makes the ridge visible

The scarred slope is menacing

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

Onomatopoeia

Understatement

Hyperbole
22 Which collection was this poem published in?
The Old Huntsman

Counter-Attack and Other Poems

Collected Poems

The War Poems
23 How was the collection received?
Well, due to its truthful and harrowing accounts of World War I.

Poorly, Sassoon was then hospitalized for shell shock

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?
The menacing scarred slope; and, one by one,

And hope, with furtive eyes and grappling fists

Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud

Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear,

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