1 In what country was Nichols born? Guyana Suriname England French Guiana 2 To what country did Nichols immigrate? The United Kingdom The United States Ireland France 3 What prize was Nichols awarded in 2021? Commonwealth Poetry Prize Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry Queen's Gold Medal for Prose Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 4 Who does the speaker NOT call upon to speak to her? Aganju Huracan Shango Oya 5 What literary device is present within the fifth stanza? oxymoron simile onomatopoeia personification 6 What is the meter within "Hurricane Hits England"? blank verse iambic pentameter free verse common/ballad verse 7 What literary device is NOT present within the poem? metaphor irony rhetorical question simile 8 What literary device is present within the last stanza? personification rhetorical question metaphor simile 9 What is the FIRST simile present in the poem? comparing the trees to whales comparing the hurricane to the landscape comparing the gods to the hurricane comparing the wind to a ghost 10 What adjectives could be used to describe the tone of the poem? angry, vengeful peaceful, joyous calm, zen longing, pensive 11 To which god does the speaker align herself? Huracan Shango Oya none 12 Which of these vocabulary words is NOT present within the text? tempest ancestral spectre havoc 13 Who is Hattie? the speaker the speaker's mother the speaker's cousin a Yoruban god 14 Where can the speaker reasonably be assumed to be? on a ship the narrator cannot reasonably be assumed to be anywhere England Guyana 15 Who can be reasonably assumed to be the speaker of the poem? Grace Nichols Hattie Huracan the speaker cannot be reasonably assumed 16 How does the speaker describe her heart? untethered unchained chained frozen 17 What effect did the hurricane have on the woman, as described in the first stanza? reassured her she was in the right place showed her the fierceness of nature brought her closer to her ancestors brought her closer to the landscape 18 What does the speaker first want to know from the gods? whether they actually exist or not what they really want with her why they left her behind why they came to England 19 What two metaphors does the speaker use to describe her internal state? the frozen lake and trees within her the frozen lake and hurricane within her the winds and mystery of storm within her the hurricane and tongues within her 20 What do the "old tongues" do in "new places," according the third stanza? heal wounds and abate tears incite reflection and epiphany cause chaos and destruction care for and caress the narrator 21 What is the central contrast within the fourth stanza? isolation and belonging stormy and calm weather light and dark blindness and sight 22 What action word is NOT present within the seventh stanza? trailing riding aligning following 23 What does the narrator NOT invite the storm to do? persuade her to move back home shake her foundations melt the frozen lake within her remind her to be grounded 24 How is the storm described in the first stanza? mild, rainy depressing, moody powerful, angry exciting, anticipated 25 What literary device is most prominent in the middle section of the poem? metaphor simile rhetorical question oxymoron