Mother to Son

Who is the author of the poem---Mother to Son?

• William Shakespeare

• Langston Hughs

• James Mercer Langston Hughes

• Henry Wordsworth Longfellow

Who is the speaker or persona of the poem?

• Longfellow

• Mother

• Son

• No answer

The poem made use of what figure of speech?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Synecdoche

• Paradox

Life is compared with _________.

• Crystal Stair

• Ladder

• scaffold

• Wooden Stair

Describe the tone of the speaker.

• Discouraging

• Advising

• Reminiscing

• Uplifting

The following are related to the poem---Mother to Son EXCEPT:

• Hardships

• Responses to Hardships

• Mother's Advice

• Complains against hardships

Based from the poem, what dominating mood can be felt?

• Discouraged

• Encouraged

• Loved

• Mesmerized

This word means---a small,thin, sharp fragment of either wood or metal.

• Splinter

• Board

• Bare

• Carpet

What kind of stairway is the mother's life different from?

• Ladder

• Stairway

• Crystal Stair

• Wooden Stair

Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.

It’s had tacks in it,

And splinters,

And boards torn up,

And places with no carpet on the floor—

Bare.

The lines indicate that the stair is _______.

• Firsthand

• long forgotten

• timeworn

• aged