Praise Song for My Mother Quizzes

Praise Song for My Mother Quiz on “Praise Song for my Mother"

1 What color is most prominent within the last stanza of “Praise Song for my Mother”?
blue

yellow

green

red
2 What rhetorical device is NOT used within “Praise Song for my Mother”?
anaphora

repetition

simile

metaphor
3 What rhetorical device is used within “Praise Song for my Mother”?
simile

rhyme

oxymoron

anaphora
4 What is the meter within “Praise Song for my Mother”?
common/ballad meter

blank verse

iambic pentameter

free verse
5 In what country was Nichols born?
Guyana

Suriname

England

French Guiana
6 To what country did Nichols immigrate?
France

The United Kingdom

Ireland

The United States
7 To which of the following does Nichols NOT compare her mother?
water

a fish’s red gill

wind

sunrise
8 What advice does the speaker's mother give her?
Be kind to others

Live your dream

Be yourself

Go to your wide futures
9 What senses are evoked within the poem's last stanza?
taste, hearing

sight, hearing

sight, smell

touch, sight
10 What is the first metaphor employed in the poem?
the speaker compares her mother to a sunrise

the speaker compares her mother to the moon's eye

the speaker compares her mother to water

the speaker compares herself to water
11 For what occasion was this poem most likely written?
Mother's Day

speaker's birthday

mother's death

mother's birthday
12 To which of the following does the speaker NOT compare her mother?
moon's eye

fried plantain smell

flame tree's spread

sound of leaves
13 To which of the following does the speaker compare her mother?
moon's eye

mirror

gushing wind

snake
14 Which of these vocabulary words is NOT present within the text?
unraveling

mantling

streaming

fathoming
15 What is the perspective of the poem?
second person singular

first person singular

first person plural

second person plural
16 What prize was Nichols awarded in 2021?
Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry

Queen's Gold Medal for Prose

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

Commonwealth Poetry Prize
17 Which describes the relationship between the narrator and her mother bestspeaker
distant, fractured

close, comforting

traumatic, upsetting

friendly, easy
18 Who can be reasonably assumed to be the speaker of the poem?
Grace Nichols' sister

the narrator cannot be reasonably assumed

Grace Nichols' mother

Grace Nichols
19 Fill in the blank: "Go to your ___ ______, you said."
wide futures

brilliant futures

long life

happy life
20 Which word is NOT attributed to water in the first stanza?
fathoming

deep

bold

cold
21 Which word is NOT attributed to sunrise in the third stanza?
bright

warm

rise

streaming
22 Which word is repeated within the fourth stanza?
replenishing

refreshing

nourishing

streaming
23 Correctly identify the anaphora within the poem's first three stanzas.
You are / [ ] to me / [ ] and [ ] and [ ]

You were / [ ] to me / [ ] and [ ] and [ ]

You were / [ ] to us / [ ] and [ ] and [ ]

I was / [ ] to you / [ ] and [ ] and [ ]
24 What tradition is Nichols working within in this poem?
ballad

haiku

sonnet

African praise song
25 What is another word for this poem's genre?
sestina

ode

villanelle

epigram

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