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