Nothing Gold Can Stay Quiz

1. ____ When Frost makes a reference to Eden in line 6, it is...

• a. Symbolism

• b. Mood

• c. Allusion

2. ____ Which technique is in line 2 (“her hardest hue to hold”)?

• a. Assonance

• b. Alliteration

• c. Epistrophe

3. ____ When Frost calls the early leaf a “flower” in line 3, it is...

• a. Simile

• b. Metaphor

• c. Literal (not figurative language)

4. What thing is personified in Frost's poem 'Nothing Gold Can Stay'?

• a. eve

• b. eden

• c. nature

• d. grief

5. 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?

• a. oxymoron

• b. metaphor

• c. tone

• d. allusion

6. True or false: imagery is evident throughout the poem?

• True

• False

7. The use of gold in the poem represents all of the blessings and good things that happen in life. This is an example of:

• a. Personification

• b. Symbolism

• c. Idiom

• d. Mood

8. Which of the following is NOT a theme found in the poem?

• a. Life always has a silver/golden lining.

• b. Life is constantly changing.

• c. You can’t hold onto your innocence.

• d. The good things in life don’t last.

9. Which quote does NOT support the theme that things in life change very quickly?

• a. “Nature's first green is gold,/Her hardest hue to hold.”

• b. “Her early leaf's a flower; /But only so an hour.”

• c. “So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.”

• d. All of the above support the theme

10. Frost writes: “Her early leaf's a flower;/But only so an hour.” The idea of a flower being a leaf for only an hour is a good example of which literary device?

• a. hyperbole

• b. Irony

• c. personification

• d. symbolism