Unseen poetry appreciation

Question 1 of 10

"The harmattan walks in at dawn, its dusty sandals on our sills; it borrows the colour from the hills and leaves before the day is gone." The rhyme scheme of the stanza is

Question 2 of 10

"The lorry groans uphill, its belly full of yams, its horn a hoarse old man who will not rest." The repetition of the h sound in "horn" and "hoarse" is an example of

Question 3 of 10

"My mother's hands are maps of every year: the ridge of yam-fields, rivers of the well, a scar where pepper and the market fell." The lines mainly show the mother's

Question 4 of 10

"So young the seedling, yet it splits the stone." The line contains

Question 5 of 10

"The drum speaks louder than the chief tonight; the village listens, and the chief keeps still." The contrast in the lines suggests that

Question 6 of 10

"The lorry groans uphill, its belly full of yams, its horn a hoarse old man who will not rest." The lorry's horn is compared to

Question 7 of 10

Read the lines and answer. "The harmattan walks in at dawn, its dusty sandals on our sills; it borrows the colour from the hills and leaves before the day is gone." The dominant figure of speech in the lines is

Question 8 of 10

"O Moon, you lamp the poor man's road for free." Addressing the moon directly is called

Question 9 of 10

"My mother's hands are maps of every year: the ridge of yam-fields, rivers of the well, a scar where pepper and the market fell." Calling the mother's hands "maps" is an example of

Question 10 of 10

"Drip, drip, the roof is counting all the rain, and every drop a coin it cannot spend." The tone of the lines is best described as