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”?
green

red

yellow

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

anaphora

metaphor

repetition
3 What rhetorical device is used within “Praise Song for my Mother”?
anaphora

oxymoron

rhyme

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?
Suriname

England

French Guiana

Guyana
6 To what country did Nichols immigrate?
The United Kingdom

France

The United States

Ireland
7 To which of the following does Nichols NOT compare her mother?
water

sunrise

wind

a fish’s red gill
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?
taste, hearing

sight, smell

sight, hearing

touch, sight
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 a sunrise

the speaker compares her mother to water
11 For what occasion was this poem most likely written?
speaker's birthday

mother's birthday

mother's death

Mother's Day
12 To which of the following does the speaker NOT compare her mother?
fried plantain smell

sound of leaves

flame tree's spread

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

moon's eye

snake

gushing wind
14 Which of these vocabulary words is NOT present within the text?
mantling

unraveling

fathoming

streaming
15 What is the perspective of the poem?
second person plural

first person singular

second person singular

first person plural
16 What prize was Nichols awarded in 2021?
Commonwealth Poetry Prize

Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

Queen's Gold Medal for Prose

Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry
17 Which describes the relationship between the narrator and her mother bestspeaker
close, comforting

distant, fractured

friendly, easy

traumatic, upsetting
18 Who can be reasonably assumed to be the speaker of the poem?
Grace Nichols

the narrator cannot be reasonably assumed

Grace Nichols' mother

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

happy life

brilliant futures

long life
20 Which word is NOT attributed to water in the first stanza?
cold

deep

bold

fathoming
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

replenishing

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 [ ]

I was / [ ] to you / [ ] and [ ] and [ ]

You were / [ ] to us / [ ] and [ ] and [ ]
24 What tradition is Nichols working within in this poem?
African praise song

sonnet

haiku

ballad
25 What is another word for this poem's genre?
epigram

ode

villanelle

sestina

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