1 What color is most prominent within the last stanza of “Praise Song for my Mother”? blue red green yellow 2 What rhetorical device is NOT used within “Praise Song for my Mother”? simile metaphor anaphora repetition 3 What rhetorical device is used within “Praise Song for my Mother”? rhyme oxymoron anaphora simile 4 What is the meter within “Praise Song for my Mother”? free verse iambic pentameter common/ballad meter blank verse 5 In what country was Nichols born? Guyana England French Guiana Suriname 6 To what country did Nichols immigrate? The United States The United Kingdom France Ireland 7 To which of the following does Nichols NOT compare her mother? sunrise a fish’s red gill water wind 8 What advice does the speaker's mother give her? Live your dream Be kind to others Go to your wide futures Be yourself 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 herself to water the speaker compares her mother to water 11 For what occasion was this poem most likely written? mother's death mother's birthday speaker's birthday 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 snake moon's eye gushing wind 14 Which of these vocabulary words is NOT present within the text? fathoming mantling unraveling 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? Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry Commonwealth Poetry Prize Queen's Gold Medal for Prose Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 17 Which describes the relationship between the narrator and her mother bestspeaker distant, fractured friendly, easy close, comforting traumatic, upsetting 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? bold cold fathoming deep 21 Which word is NOT attributed to sunrise in the third stanza? bright streaming warm rise 22 Which word is repeated within the fourth stanza? nourishing replenishing refreshing streaming 23 Correctly identify the anaphora within the poem's first three stanzas. You were / [ ] to us / [ ] and [ ] and [ ] I was / [ ] to you / [ ] and [ ] and [ ] You are / [ ] to me / [ ] and [ ] and [ ] You were / [ ] to me / [ ] and [ ] and [ ] 24 What tradition is Nichols working within in this poem? haiku sonnet ballad African praise song 25 What is another word for this poem's genre? ode epigram sestina villanelle