Nothing Gold Can Stay 25

Nature's first green refers to

• leaves

• summer

• spring

• grass

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"Her hardest hue to hold" is an example of which literary device?
*Hint: It's a sound device.

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• alliteration

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"Her hardest hue to hold"

• Nature is being personified.

• hue, huh?

• Hue is the theme

• He is hyperbolized.

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What is the meaning of subsides?

• To settle down
• Shade of colour
• Sadness
• Increases

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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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The use of the word “gold” in the poem is...

• figurative (metaphor)

• literal (the earth element)

• neither

• from Gone with the Wind

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Hue means...

• shape
• size
• color
• time

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"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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The name of the poet is _________

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

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The antonym for dawn is _____

• dusk

• morning

• sun rise

• night

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