Nothing Gold Can Stay Quizzes

Nothing Gold Can Stay Quiz

1 Who is the speaker of this poem?
The Garden of Eden

An unnamed third-person narrator

Nature

An unnamed first-person narrator
2 Where is this poem set?
Boston

Eden

New Hampshire

This poem has no specific setting
3 Eden in this poem represents darkness, turning the image's usual meaning on its head.
False

True
4 Consonance is used in this poem.

True

False
5 Nature in this poem is personified as female.

True

False
6 What does gold symbolize in this poem?
Tenderness and care

Sunlight

Youth, beauty, and goodness

Monetary value
7 Eden is personified in this poem as a woman.

False

True
8 This poem uses an "AABB" rhyme scheme.

False

True
9 This poem uses rhyming couplets

True

False
10 The title of this poem is misleading.

False

True
11 Which of the following most closely describes the speaker's tone?
Distraught and mournful

Passionate and inspired

Neutral and slightly sorrowful

Hopeful and trepidatious
12 The speaker is unnamed.

False

True
13 How many syllables does each line contain?
Each line contains five syllables except for the last, which contains six

The lines alternately contain eight and ten syllables

The lines alternately contain six and eight syllables

Each line contains six syllables except for the last, which contains five
14 This poem is a sonnet.

True

False
15 What does "an hour" represent in this poem?
It does not represent anything and literally means an hour of time

The final moments of one's life

A fleeting and unspecified amount of time

The full span of a lifetime
16 What does "a leaf" subside to in this poem?
Another leaf

A tree

A flower

A seed
17 What does dawn "[go] down to" in this poem?
The earth

The horizon

Night

Day
18 Where does this poem's title reappear?
At the end of the first stanza

The final line

The first line

It does not reappear
19 How many stanzas does this poem contain?
Three

Two

One

Four
20 Each line of this poem is its own sentence.
True

False
21 This poem uses the juxtaposition between day and night to differentiate between good and evil.

True

False
22 This poem is an ode.
True

False
23 What "[sinks] to grief" in the poem?
The speaker

A capsized ship

A leaf in water

Eden
24 What is an "early leaf" compared to in the poem?
Gold

A flower

An infant

Imminent death
25 This poem uses rhyming quatrains.
False

True

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