1 Which best describes the poem's speaker? Omniscient, third-person; addresses the reader using second-person Omniscient, third-person; addresses the soldier using second-person All-knowing, first-person, addresses the reader using second-person Unidentified, third-person 2 Describe the form. Seven stanzas composed of different lengths Six sextets Seven sextets Six stanzas composed of different lengths 3 What senses are engaged in this poem? All senses Visual, tactile, auditory Visual Auditory, gustatory, olfactory 4 Which of the following is not a metaphor in the poem? "in the wings of sleep" "his mortal shore / Lipped by the inward, moonless waves of death" Water "silence heaped / Round him, unshaken as the steadfast walls" 5 Which best describes a metaphor? A word or phrase used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid effec A comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated using the words "like" or "as" The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words A description of one thing by way of another, unrelated thing 6 Which is not an example of alliteration? "Silence and safety" "And there was silence in the summer night; / Silence and safety; and the veils of sleep" "That soak the woods; not the harsh rain" "Light many lamps and gather round his bed. / Lend him your...will to live" 7 What is alliteration? A comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated using the words "like" or "as" A word or phrase used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid effect The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words A comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated 8 What is the reader implored to do? Protest the war by writing letters. Care for the dying soldier's physical and energetic needs. Row down a river. Enlist and fight. 9 What is the major conflict of the poem? World War One World War Two Whether or not the young soldier will encounter his death Death does not care about justice 10 Which quote best foreshadows the soldier's death? "Shuddering because that evil thing had passed." "Gently and slowly washing life away" "Rain—he could hear it rustling through the dark;" "He swallowed, unresisting; moaned and dropped" 11 Which is an example of onomatopoeia? trickling flickered music thudding 12 What collection was this poem published in? The Old Huntsman and Other Poems The Daffodil Murderer Counter-Attack and Other Poems The War Poems of Sigfried Sassoon 13 What is Sassoon best known for today? His angry and compassionate anti-war poems His novels His satires His romantic pastoral poetry 14 Which fellow soldier-poet named "The Death Bed" as the "finest poem" in the collection? Robert Graves Isaac Rosenberg Wilfred Owen Rupert Brooke 15 Which of the following is not a theme in the poem? Criticizing the Military Establishment Satirizing military authority Mortality Death and Sleep as a Journey 16 Who or what is personified in the poem? an animal that broke into the ward the soldier death death and the soldier's pain 17 What is personification? the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. A word or phrase used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or vivid effect The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words A comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated using the words "like" or "as" 18 What does water symbolize? Tranquility The fluid state of the soldier's consciousness The soldier's acceptance of his death Summertime 19 Why are the guns at the end specified as "the"? They refer to the conflict of World War I There is no reason for the specification They refer to the guns the soldier used in battle They refer to the conflict of World War II 20 Why is death not capitalized in the poem? Unspecified, but perhaps to suggest a weak sense Because it is an inanimate process. Unspecified, but perhaps to suggest a humble sense Death is capitalized in the poem 21 Where in the poem does Sassoon clarify that the drowsing man is dying? In the second-to-last stanza In the final line In the first stanza Never 22 Which words become an anaphora? Water and summer Light and summer Water and night Summer and night 23 Finish this quote: "Lipped by the inward, moonless__" night sky waves of death starless sky waves of pain 24 What is anaphora? 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 The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. A comparison between two things that are otherwise unrelated 25 Why does the speaker give a false sense of hope that the soldier will live? To show that justice prevails when there is hope To increase the poem's tension by prolonging the death To show that there is always hope To cruelly trick the reader