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

Lyric

Sonnet

Nursery rhyme
2 The poem's speaker is best described as ____________.
"You"

Lyrical

"I"

First-person, singular
3 Who might we assume to be the poem's primary audience?
Students

Adults

Children

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

ABCD

AABB

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

Inverted syntax

Normal syntax

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

Onomatopoeia

Imagery

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

Anthropomorphism

Imagery

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

Metaphor

Personification

Anaphora
9 The presence of the wind is proved by what?
Science

Observation

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?
Metonymy

Substitution

Metaphor

Anaphora
11 Christina Rossetti published "Who has seen the Wind?" in what year?
1904

1893

1917

1885
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?
Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Virginia Woolf

William Wordsworth

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
14 Christina Rossetti can be best associated with which group of writers?
The Victorians

The Modernists

The Pre-Raphaelites

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

Jacques Derrida

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Immanuel Kant
16 Who formalized the concept of agnosticism?
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Jacques Derrida

Immanuel Kant

Edmund Burke
17 The sublime is characterized by ________.
Respect and appreciation

Faith

Fear, awe, and uncertainty

Comfort and ease
18 The highest form of the sublime is said to occur where?
In nature

In death

In faith

In the wind
19 Agnosticism Is best defined as __________.
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.

the belief that there is no divine being.
20 Originally, Christina Rossetti was dismissed as what?
A woman

Similar to other Pre-Raphaelites

A children's poet

A romantic
21 In what year was "Who has seen the wind?" set to music?
1900

2000

1893

1918
22 What composer set "Who has seen the wind?" to music?
Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Bach

John Ireland

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
23 The wind is an example of which literary device?
Synecdoche

Allusion

Allegory

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

Motif

Metaphor

Allusion
25 The meter of the poem is mainly ______.
Dactylic hexameter

Iambic tetrameter

Trochaic tetrameter

Iambic trimeter

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Who Has Seen the Wind?

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