1 What color is most prominent within the last stanza of “Praise Song for my Mother”? blue yellow red green 2 What rhetorical device is NOT used within “Praise Song for my Mother”? repetition simile anaphora metaphor 3 What rhetorical device is used within “Praise Song for my Mother”? rhyme oxymoron anaphora simile 4 What is the meter within “Praise Song for my Mother”? blank verse free verse iambic pentameter common/ballad meter 5 In what country was Nichols born? England Guyana French Guiana Suriname 6 To what country did Nichols immigrate? France The United States The United Kingdom Ireland 7 To which of the following does Nichols NOT compare her mother? a fish’s red gill sunrise wind water 8 What advice does the speaker's mother give her? Go to your wide futures Be yourself Live your dream Be kind to others 9 What senses are evoked within the poem's last stanza? sight, smell touch, sight taste, hearing sight, hearing 10 What is the first metaphor employed in the poem? the speaker compares her mother to the moon's eye the speaker compares herself to water the speaker compares her mother to water the speaker compares her mother to a sunrise 11 For what occasion was this poem most likely written? Mother's Day speaker's birthday mother's birthday mother's death 12 To which of the following does the speaker NOT compare her mother? sound of leaves fried plantain smell moon's eye flame tree's spread 13 To which of the following does the speaker compare her mother? snake mirror gushing wind moon's eye 14 Which of these vocabulary words is NOT present within the text? streaming fathoming unraveling mantling 15 What is the perspective of the poem? second person singular first person singular second person plural first person plural 16 What prize was Nichols awarded in 2021? Queen's Gold Medal for Prose Commonwealth Poetry Prize Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 17 Which describes the relationship between the narrator and her mother bestspeaker close, comforting traumatic, upsetting distant, fractured friendly, easy 18 Who can be reasonably assumed to be the speaker of the poem? Grace Nichols' mother the narrator cannot be reasonably assumed Grace Nichols Grace Nichols' sister 19 Fill in the blank: "Go to your ___ ______, you said." happy life long life wide futures brilliant futures 20 Which word is NOT attributed to water in the first stanza? bold fathoming deep cold 21 Which word is NOT attributed to sunrise in the third stanza? rise streaming warm bright 22 Which word is repeated within the fourth stanza? refreshing nourishing streaming replenishing 23 Correctly identify the anaphora within the poem's first three stanzas. I was / [ ] to you / [ ] and [ ] and [ ] You are / [ ] to me / [ ] and [ ] and [ ] You were / [ ] to me / [ ] and [ ] and [ ] You were / [ ] to us / [ ] and [ ] and [ ] 24 What tradition is Nichols working within in this poem? haiku African praise song ballad sonnet 25 What is another word for this poem's genre? epigram sestina villanelle ode
