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