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Poetry Analysis - "Nothing Gold Can Stay" #ela #gold

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1
What figure of speech is "Nothing gold can stay?"
Metaphor
Personification
Simile
Assonance
2
What significance does the reference to Eden NOT have on the poem's meaning?
It further reinforces that nothing gold can stay
It shows how greedy man is
It makes the theme more universal to include all humans
It shows from the beginning of time good things fall
3
What does the title of the poem mean?
Metals can always melt down; transform
Gold tarnishes easily
Gold is not as lasting as we think
Youth and innocence must pass away
4
What does the word 'hue' mean?
Texture
Light
Emotion
Color
5
What is the rhyme scheme?
ABCDABCD
ABABABAB
AABBCCDD
ABCABCDD
6
What is the poem's meter called?
Rhyming Couplets of Iambic Pentameter
I don't know
Iambic Pentameter
Rhyming Couplets of Iambic Trimeter
7
What figure of speech is "Nature's first green is gold?"
Metaphor and Alliteration
Anaphora and Personification
Metaphor and Assonance
Personification and Metaphor
8
What figure of speech is "Her hardest hue to hold?"
Metaphor
Sensory Language
Oxymoron
Personification
9
What is a major theme of the poem?
Everything beautiful and pure passes away
Joy & pain go together; need one to appreciate the other
Everything good turns bad
Gold or money is fleeting
10
What figure of speech is the reference to the Garden of Eden?
Personification
Allusion
Metaphor
Simile