1 What color is most prominent within the last stanza of “Praise Song for my Mother”? green blue red yellow 2 What rhetorical device is NOT used within “Praise Song for my Mother”? anaphora metaphor simile repetition 3 What rhetorical device is used within “Praise Song for my Mother”? rhyme simile oxymoron anaphora 4 What is the meter within “Praise Song for my Mother”? blank verse free verse iambic pentameter common/ballad meter 5 In what country was Nichols born? Suriname French Guiana Guyana England 6 To what country did Nichols immigrate? The United Kingdom Ireland France The United States 7 To which of the following does Nichols NOT compare her mother? a fish’s red gill sunrise water wind 8 What advice does the speaker's mother give her? Go to your wide futures Live your dream Be kind to others Be yourself 9 What senses are evoked within the poem's last stanza? sight, smell touch, sight sight, hearing taste, hearing 10 What is the first metaphor employed in the poem? the speaker compares her mother to the moon's eye the speaker compares her mother to a sunrise 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 death mother's birthday Mother's Day speaker's birthday 12 To which of the following does the speaker NOT compare her mother? flame tree's spread moon's eye fried plantain smell sound of leaves 13 To which of the following does the speaker compare her mother? snake moon's eye gushing wind mirror 14 Which of these vocabulary words is NOT present within the text? mantling fathoming unraveling streaming 15 What is the perspective of the poem? second person singular first person singular first person plural second person plural 16 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 17 Which describes the relationship between the narrator and her mother bestspeaker distant, fractured traumatic, upsetting friendly, easy close, comforting 18 Who can be reasonably assumed to be the speaker of the poem? the narrator cannot be reasonably assumed Grace Nichols Grace Nichols' mother Grace Nichols' sister 19 Fill in the blank: "Go to your ___ ______, you said." long life happy life wide futures brilliant futures 20 Which word is NOT attributed to water in the first stanza? cold bold deep fathoming 21 Which word is NOT attributed to sunrise in the third stanza? rise bright streaming warm 22 Which word is repeated within the fourth stanza? streaming replenishing refreshing nourishing 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 African praise song ballad 25 What is another word for this poem's genre? villanelle ode epigram sestina