Attack (Sassoon poem) Quizzes

Attack (Sassoon poem) Quiz

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

Third-person

Second and third-person

Second-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 soldier who experiences shell shock as a result of the bristling fire.

The speaker is a commanding officer.

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

11

14

13
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?
Sonnet

Shakespeare

Aubade

Love poem
6 Describe the sunlight in the poem.
Pale yellow, filtering

Bright purple, glowing

Wild purple, glowering

Strong and blinding
7 Define "dun"
A horse

The state of being finished

A bright green color

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

The tanks

The trench

The ridge
9 Which is not an example of alliteration?
The menacing scarred slope

The barrage roars and lifts

time ticks blank and busy

Smouldering through spouts of drifting smoke that shroud
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

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

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 are deathly afraid.

They bow to their superiors

They have been crippled.

They are weighed down by gear.
12 What is a barrage?
A place where military gear is stored

Soldiers' accommodations

A concentrated artillery bombardment over a wide area

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

The slope

The sunlight

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

Lines of grey, muttering faces, masked with fear,

They leave their trenches, going over the top,

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.

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 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?
Strict iambic pentameter

Free verse

Blank verse

Iambic pentameter, with some exceptions in syllabic stress
17 Finish this quote: "While time ticks__"
meaninglessly

blank and brutal on their wrists

blank and busy on their wrists

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

His commanders

God

His mother
19 What is the tone?
Acerbic, Violent, Uncanny

Eerie, Desperate, Violent

Pointed, Angry, Violent

Bitter, Tragic, Reflective
20 Which detail best foreshadows the violence to come?
The dawn light makes the ridge visible

The scarred slope is menacing

Men jostle and climb to

The smoke smolders
21 Which of the following is used in the poem?
Personification

Hyperbole

Understatement

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

Counter-Attack and Other Poems

The War Poems

Collected Poems
23 How was the collection received?
Poorly, as the details were too grotesque

Well, due to its truthful and harrowing accounts of World War I.

Poorly, Sassoon was then hospitalized for shell shock

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

The Horrors of Warfare

Nature

Explicitly Criticizing the British Public
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,

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