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