“Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost
Authored by JOSHUA BOYD
English
8th Grade
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This quiz focuses on literary analysis of Robert Frost's poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay," targeting fundamental poetry analysis skills appropriate for 8th grade English Language Arts. Students must demonstrate mastery of figurative language identification, including personification, metaphor, alliteration, symbolism, and hyperbole, while also analyzing structural elements like rhyme scheme and the relationship between literary devices and meaning. The core concepts required include understanding how poets use figurative language to create deeper meaning, recognizing sound devices and their effects, distinguishing between theme and mood, and analyzing how specific word choices contribute to a poem's overall emotional impact. Students need strong foundational knowledge of literary terminology and the analytical skills to connect textual evidence to larger interpretive concepts about the transient nature of beauty and innocence. Created by Joshua Boyd, an English teacher in the US who teaches grade 8. This quiz serves as an excellent tool for formative assessment following close reading instruction of the poem, allowing teachers to gauge student comprehension of both surface-level literary device identification and deeper thematic analysis. The quiz works effectively as a review activity before summative assessments, homework to reinforce classroom discussions, or as a warm-up to activate prior knowledge before exploring similar themes in other texts. Teachers can use the results to identify which students need additional support with figurative language recognition versus those ready for more complex comparative analysis. This assessment directly supports Common Core standards CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.4 for determining figurative and connotative meanings, and CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.2 for analyzing how themes develop through specific details in the text.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
What example of figurative language can be found in the following quote from the poem?
“Nature's first green is gold,/Her hardest hue to hold.”
repetition
simile
allusion
personification
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.7.5
CCSS.RL.7.10
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
The line, “Her hardest hue to hold,” shows alliteration (repetition of the h sound). Which of the following lines in the poem also shows alliteration?
“Her early leaf's a flower”
“But only so an hour”
“So dawn goes down to day”
“Nothing gold can stay”
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.7.10
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Green is not gold. In the first line, Frost is comparing the green of spring with something precious like gold. What literary device is being used here?
oxymoron
metaphor
tone.
allusion
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.7.5
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Frost uses the word “leaf” in line 3 and again in line 5, what literary device is being utilized here?
repetition
personification
assonance
analogy
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.7.10
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
20 sec • 1 pt
True or false: imagery is evident throughout the poem?
true
false
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What literary device is used in the following line: “So Eden sank to grief”
allusion
metaphor
idiom
point of view
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
“So dawn goes down to day/Nothing gold can stay” These lines are best described as a use of which literary device?
onomatopoeia
irony
theme
analogy
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.7.4
CCSS.RL.7.5
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