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”?
red

yellow

blue

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

simile

anaphora

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

anaphora

rhyme

simile
4 What is the meter within “Praise Song for my Mother”?
iambic pentameter

blank verse

common/ballad meter

free verse
5 In what country was Nichols born?
French Guiana

Guyana

Suriname

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

Ireland

The United States

France
7 To which of the following does Nichols NOT compare her mother?
wind

a fish’s red gill

sunrise

water
8 What advice does the speaker's mother give her?
Be yourself

Be kind to others

Go to your wide futures

Live your dream
9 What senses are evoked within the poem's last stanza?
taste, hearing

touch, sight

sight, hearing

sight, smell
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 her mother to water

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

mother's death

speaker's birthday

Mother's Day
12 To which of the following does the speaker NOT compare her mother?
sound of leaves

moon's eye

flame tree's spread

fried plantain smell
13 To which of the following does the speaker compare her mother?
gushing wind

moon's eye

snake

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

streaming

fathoming

unraveling
15 What is the perspective of the poem?
first person singular

second person singular

first person plural

second person plural
16 What prize was Nichols awarded in 2021?
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry

Queen's Gold Medal for Prose

Commonwealth Poetry Prize

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

distant, fractured

close, comforting

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

Grace Nichols

Grace Nichols' mother

the narrator cannot be reasonably assumed
19 Fill in the blank: "Go to your ___ ______, you said."
wide futures

happy life

long life

brilliant futures
20 Which word is NOT attributed to water in the first stanza?
bold

fathoming

deep

cold
21 Which word is NOT attributed to sunrise in the third stanza?
bright

warm

streaming

rise
22 Which word is repeated within the fourth stanza?
replenishing

refreshing

nourishing

streaming
23 Correctly identify the anaphora within the poem's first three stanzas.
I was / [ ] to you / [ ] and [ ] and [ ]

You were / [ ] to me / [ ] and [ ] and [ ]

You were / [ ] to us / [ ] and [ ] and [ ]

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

ballad

haiku

sonnet
25 What is another word for this poem's genre?
ode

villanelle

epigram

sestina

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