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