Nothing Gold Can Stay TNReady Review

Which two selections provide a meaning for the word 'subsides' as it is used in the poem?

• diminishes

• grows

• overpowers

• dwindles

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What does the color gold most likely represent in the poem?

• Purity and beauty

• Wealth and riches

• Warmth and kindness

• Strength and power

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

What does the phrase 'sank to grief' suggest about Eden?

• Eden was a place filled with melancholy

• Eden experienced a transition from being a place of paradise to a place of despair

• Eden sank into the sea and was no more

• Eden only lasted as long as the sun was visible. It ended with the setting sun

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

How does the line 'her early leaf's a flower / but only for an hour' justify the theme that nothing lasts forever?

• It justifies that even nature cannot make her beauty stay forever

• It highlights the premise that nature is the only entity that can control time

• It contrasts nature's ability to grieve to humans' ability; they are polar opposites

• It compares nature's beauty to the things surrounding it

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

How do nature's qualities in the initial lines of the poem drive the rest of the poem's plot?

• A. Nature's beauty creates tension as a horrific storm is approaching.

• Nature tricks the speaker with its apparent beauty that quickly fades, causing trust issues within the speaker

• Nature's original beauty braces the reader for its sharp decline into hideousness by the poem's end

• Nature behaves different than the speaker expects, resulting in animosity between the speaker and the uncivilized world

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

Which of the following best represents a theme of the poem?

• Perfection will eventually outlast all damaged things

• Nothing can be certain in life, but many things are worth living for

• Excellence will follow those who wish to obtain it

• All good things will at some point or another cease to exist

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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