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"Nature's first green is gold" is a metaphor.

What is "nature's first green"?

What does it mean for someting to "be gold"?

Multiple Choice

Who is the poet referring to when he says, "Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower"

• Johnny's mum
• Mother Nature
• Ponyboy's mum
• Eden

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What according to nature is gold?

• Its first gold
• Its first green
• Its last green
• Early leaves

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The name of the poet is _________

• William Wordsworth
• Robert Frost
• Rabindranath Tagore
• John Keats

Nature's first green is gold.

• Setting of poem = nature

• Nature's first green = spring, new life

• is gold = precious, special

Multiple Choice

"Nature's first green" refers to

• summer
• leaves
• spring
• grass

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The antonym for dawn is _____

• dusk

• morning

• sun rise

• night

Multiple Choice

What is the theme of the poem?

• Nature's beauty is its flowers
• Nothing precious stays for ever
• Everything subsides immediately
• Hold on to life as long as you can

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Hue means...

• shape
• size
• color
• time

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Eden is a reference to

• paradise
• the sun
• a bad place 
• the author's home

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In the book, the poem is first recited

• by Johnny, in the lot-

• by Dally, at school

• by Ponyboy, in the church

• by Darry, at the funeral

Multiple Choice

"So Eden sank to grief." What allusion is being made here?

• The Garden of Eden
• Heaven's Gate
• Adam and Eve
• The novel "East of Eden"

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"Her early leaf's a flower" is an example of

• irony
• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole

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"But only so an hour" means
(think about what it means non-literally)

• leaves only live for an hour
• some change happens quickly
• flowers only live for an hour
• it is only spring for an hour

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What book does this poem appear in?

• "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
• "Tangerine"
• "The Outsiders"
• "The Catcher in the Rye"

Multiple Choice

In line 5, what does the word "subsides" mean?

• To increase and make bigger
• To strip someone of their dignity
• To become less intense, violent, or severe
• To lack sympathy towards others

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"Nature's first green is gold." What sound technique has been used in this line?

• Assonance
• Repetition
• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration

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"Her hardest hue to hold." What figurative language technique is being used here?

• Personification
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Hyperbole

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This poem is mainly about

• the seasons
• flowers
• leaves
• Ponyboy

Multiple Choice

"But only so an hour" means
(think about what it means non-literally)

• leaves only live for an hour
• some change happens quickly
• flowers only live for an hour
• it is only spring for an hour

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An allusion is when a writer talks about or mentions a famous person, place, event,etc. in their own story, poem, etc. What two allusions are made in chapter 5?

• Gone with the Wind

• " Nothing Gold Can Stay"

• Rock Springs Middle School

• George Washington

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How does the allusion of Gone with the Wind contribute to the story?

• It contributes to the text because it helps illustrate the level of respect and worship Johnny has for Ponyboy.

• It contributes to the text because it helps illustrate the level of respect and worship Johnny has for Bob.

• It contributes to the text because it helps illustrate the level of respect and worship Johnny has for Darry.

• It contributes to the text because it helps illustrate the level of respect and worship Johnny has for Dally.

Multiple Choice

Her hardest hue to hold.

Personification is giving human qualities or traits to non-human things. What is being personified here?

• Colors

• Flowers

• Mother Nature

• Sunrise

Her hardest hue to hold.

• The first color we see in spring doesn't stick around for very long.

• This is "her hardest hue to hold"

• "Her" = Mother Nature

Her early leaf's a flower;

• Spring = flowering trees and bushes

• Turn to green leaves in summer

• More metaphor - Mother Nature's first leaf is actually a flower!

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Nature's first green is gold.

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf's a flower;

But only so an hour.

What do you think Robert Frost is saying in stanza 1?

Nature's first green is gold.

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf's a flower;

But only so an hour.

• Flower = symbol of youth; innocence

• Only lasts for a short time before it changes and matures

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

• Subsides = sank down, settled

• Flower > the actual leaf

So Eden sank to grief;

• Allusion = passing reference to someone or something

• Nature is being compared to the Garden of Eden (biblical reference)

• Adam and Eve were expelled from Eden when they sank or fell from God's grace.

So dawn goes down to day.

• Dawn turns into day

• The beauty of day is nothing compared to the golden beauty of the first light of dawn.

Nothing gold can stay.

• Early spring leaves and flowers, Garden of Eden and dawn are all gold.

• None of them can stay for very long in this world.

Open Ended

Do you agree with Robert Frost that nothing gold can stay?