The Émigrée by Carol Rumens - Quiz

What is the main theme of 'The Émigrée' by Carol Rumens?

• War and peace

• Love and betrayal

• Displacement and nostalgia

• Nature and technology

Which figure of speech is used in the quotation 'I comb its hair and love its shining eyes'?

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

What does the speaker in 'The Émigrée' reflect on?

• A lost love

• A historical event

• Their city of birth

• A future journey

The city in the poem could be said to represent the past. Which figure of speech has the poet used?

• A distended metaphor

• A pretended metaphor

• An extended metaphor

What do the narrator's repeated references to sunlight suggest?

• 
  That she has a pessimistic view of the city

• 
  That she has a realistic view of the city

• That she has an idealised view of the city