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

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1
What is the theme of the poem?
Everything good turns bad
Gold or money is fleeting
The most beautiful things in life go away.
Joy & pain go together; need one to appreciate the other
2
What does the title of the poem mean?
Metals can always melt down; transform
Gold is not as lasting as we think
compares gold to fleeting youth, innocence
Gold tarnishes
3
What does the word 'hue' mean?
Light
Emotion
Texture
Color
4
What figure of speech is "Her hardest hue to hold?"
Oxymoron
Metaphor
Sensory Language
Personification/alliteration
5
What figure of speech is the reference to the Garden of Eden?
Metaphor
Personification
Allusion
Simile
6
What is the rhyme scheme?
ABCDABCD
ABABABAB
ABCABCDD
AABBCCDD
7
Who was "Golden" in a previous chapter?
Mother
Johnny
Cherry
Soda
8
What figure of speech is "Nature's first green is gold?"
Metaphor and Assonance
Metaphor and Alliteration
Anaphora and Personification
Personification and Metaphor
9
What significance does the reference to Eden have on the poem's meaning?
It shows how greedy man is
It makes the theme apply to people.
It further reinforces that nothing gold can stay
It shows from the beginning of time good things fall
10
What figure of speech is "Nothing gold can stay?"
Personification
Assonance
Metaphor
Simile