"Nothing Gold Can Stay" Poem Analysis

"Nature's first green" refers to

• summer
• leaves
• spring
• grass

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

When Frost says that "Nature's first green is gold" he means that

• spring is precious
• spring is expensive
• spring is gold
• spring is cold

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

Hue means...

• shape
• size
• color
• time

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CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.6.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

Eden is a reference to

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

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CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

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

• irony
• simile
• metaphor
• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

The theme of the poem is

• Perfection and youth don't last forever
• You can stay young forever
• Change is scary
• Life is full of challenges

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

"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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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

"Nature's first green is gold" is a 

• simile
• hyperbole
• metaphor 
• idiom 

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

What is a couplet? 

• A type of poem
• A type of flower
• A pair of rhyming lines 
• A group of 3 rhyming lines

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

What book does this poem appear in?

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

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6