1 In what country was Nichols born? England Suriname French Guiana Guyana 2 To what country did Nichols immigrate? Ireland France The United States The United Kingdom 3 What prize was Nichols awarded in 2021? Queen's Silver Medal for Poetry Commonwealth Poetry Prize Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry Queen's Gold Medal for Prose 4 Who does the speaker NOT call upon to speak to her? Aganju Huracan Oya Shango 5 What literary device is present within the fifth stanza? onomatopoeia personification simile oxymoron 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? rhetorical question irony metaphor simile 8 What literary device is present within the last stanza? rhetorical question metaphor personification simile 9 What is the FIRST simile present in the poem? comparing the hurricane to the landscape comparing the gods to the hurricane comparing the wind to a ghost comparing the trees to whales 10 What adjectives could be used to describe the tone of the poem? calm, zen longing, pensive peaceful, joyous angry, vengeful 11 To which god does the speaker align herself? Shango Huracan Oya none 12 Which of these vocabulary words is NOT present within the text? spectre ancestral tempest havoc 13 Who is Hattie? the speaker the speaker's cousin the speaker's mother a Yoruban god 14 Where can the speaker reasonably be assumed to be? on a ship Guyana the narrator cannot reasonably be assumed to be anywhere England 15 Who can be reasonably assumed to be the speaker of the poem? Grace Nichols the speaker cannot be reasonably assumed Hattie Huracan 16 How does the speaker describe her heart? untethered frozen unchained chained 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 what they really want with her why they came to England 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 trees within her the frozen lake and hurricane within her the winds and mystery of storm within her 20 What do the "old tongues" do in "new places," according the third stanza? care for and caress the narrator heal wounds and abate tears incite reflection and epiphany cause chaos and destruction 21 What is the central contrast within the fourth stanza? isolation and belonging blindness and sight stormy and calm weather light and dark 22 What action word is NOT present within the seventh stanza? trailing riding aligning following 23 What does the narrator NOT invite the storm to do? remind her to be grounded persuade her to move back home melt the frozen lake within her shake her foundations 24 How is the storm described in the first stanza? powerful, angry mild, rainy depressing, moody exciting, anticipated 25 What literary device is most prominent in the middle section of the poem? rhetorical question metaphor simile oxymoron