Who Has Seen the Wind? Quizzes

Who Has Seen the Wind? Quiz

1 "Who has seen the wind?" is an an example of a ________.
Ballad

Nursery rhyme

Lyric

Sonnet
2 The poem's speaker is best described as ____________.
First-person, singular

Lyrical

"I"

"You"
3 Who might we assume to be the poem's primary audience?
Children

Students

Priests

Adults
4 The poem has a rhyme scheme of __________.
ABCD

ABAB

AABB

ABCB
5 The phrase "neither I nor you" is an example of _________ with respect to the subjects.
Deference

Normal syntax

Inverted syntax

Correct grammar
6 "But when the leaves hang trembling" is an example of which poetic device?
Metonymy

Onomatopoeia

Imagery

Synecdoche
7 "But when the trees bow down their head" is an example of which poetic device?
Imagery

Anthropomorphism

Personification

Metonymy
8 Anthropomorphism is a specific type of which poetic device?
Synecdoche

Anaphora

Metaphor

Personification
9 The presence of the wind is proved by what?
The effect it causes on trees and their leaves.

Faith

Observation

Science
10 "Leaves" act as stand in for the whole tree. This is an example of what poetic device?
Substitution

Metaphor

Metonymy

Anaphora
11 Christina Rossetti published "Who has seen the Wind?" in what year?
1885

1917

1904

1893
12 "Who has seen the wind?" was published as part of what collection?
Lyrical Ballads

Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book

Leaves of Grass

The Rape of the Lock
13 Which famous writer was inspired by Christina Rossetti's poetry?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Virginia Woolf

William Wordsworth

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
14 Christina Rossetti can be best associated with which group of writers?
The Modernists

The Pre-Raphaelites

The Victorians

The Romantics
15 Who originally developed the concept of the sublime?
Edmund Burke

Jacques Derrida

Immanuel Kant

Percy Bysshe Shelley
16 Who formalized the concept of agnosticism?
Edmund Burke

Immanuel Kant

Jacques Derrida

Percy Bysshe Shelley
17 The sublime is characterized by ________.
Comfort and ease

Fear, awe, and uncertainty

Faith

Respect and appreciation
18 The highest form of the sublime is said to occur where?
In the wind

In nature

In death

In faith
19 Agnosticism Is best defined as __________.
the view that it is impossible either to prove or to disprove the existence of the divine.

indirect evidence used to prove the existence of the divine.

that humans can prove the existence of the divine.

the belief that there is no divine being.
20 Originally, Christina Rossetti was dismissed as what?
Similar to other Pre-Raphaelites

A romantic

A children's poet

A woman
21 In what year was "Who has seen the wind?" set to music?
1918

1900

2000

1893
22 What composer set "Who has seen the wind?" to music?
Dante Gabriel Rossetti

John Ireland

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Bach
23 The wind is an example of which literary device?
Allusion

Metaphor

Synecdoche

Allegory
24 The recurrence of the sublime can be considered a ______.
Metaphor

Allusion

Motif

Synecdoche
25 The meter of the poem is mainly ______.
Trochaic tetrameter

Iambic tetrameter

Iambic trimeter

Dactylic hexameter

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Who Has Seen the Wind?

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