Who Has Seen the Wind? Quizzes

Who Has Seen the Wind? Quiz

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

Nursery rhyme

Ballad

Lyric
2 The poem's speaker is best described as ____________.
"I"

Lyrical

First-person, singular

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

Children

Adults

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

AABB

ABAB

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

Deference

Inverted syntax

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

Synecdoche

Metonymy

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

Metonymy

Anthropomorphism

Personification
8 Anthropomorphism is a specific type of which poetic device?
Metaphor

Synecdoche

Anaphora

Personification
9 The presence of the wind is proved by what?
Observation

Science

Faith

The effect it causes on trees and their leaves.
10 "Leaves" act as stand in for the whole tree. This is an example of what poetic device?
Metaphor

Metonymy

Anaphora

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

1893

1917

1904
12 "Who has seen the wind?" was published as part of what collection?
The Rape of the Lock

Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book

Leaves of Grass

Lyrical Ballads
13 Which famous writer was inspired by Christina Rossetti's poetry?
Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Virginia Woolf

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

William Wordsworth
14 Christina Rossetti can be best associated with which group of writers?
The Pre-Raphaelites

The Modernists

The Romantics

The Victorians
15 Who originally developed the concept of the sublime?
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Immanuel Kant

Jacques Derrida

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

Immanuel Kant

Jacques Derrida

Edmund Burke
17 The sublime is characterized by ________.
Comfort and ease

Respect and appreciation

Faith

Fear, awe, and uncertainty
18 The highest form of the sublime is said to occur where?
In death

In the wind

In nature

In faith
19 Agnosticism Is best defined as __________.
the belief that there is no divine being.

that humans can prove the existence of the divine.

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.
20 Originally, Christina Rossetti was dismissed as what?
A romantic

A woman

A children's poet

Similar to other Pre-Raphaelites
21 In what year was "Who has seen the wind?" set to music?
1918

1900

1893

2000
22 What composer set "Who has seen the wind?" to music?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Bach

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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

Allegory

Synecdoche

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

Metaphor

Motif

Allusion
25 The meter of the poem is mainly ______.
Iambic tetrameter

Dactylic hexameter

Iambic trimeter

Trochaic tetrameter

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Who Has Seen the Wind?

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