Nothing Gold Can Stay Quizzes

Nothing Gold Can Stay Quiz

1 Who is the speaker of this poem?

The Garden of Eden

Nature

An unnamed third-person narrator

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

Boston

This poem has no specific setting

Eden

New Hampshire
3 Eden in this poem represents darkness, turning the image's usual meaning on its head.

True

False
4 Consonance is used in this poem.

True

False
5 Nature in this poem is personified as female.

False

True
6 What does gold symbolize in this poem?

Youth, beauty, and goodness

Tenderness and care

Sunlight

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

True

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

False

True
9 This poem uses rhyming couplets

False

True
10 The title of this poem is misleading.

True

False
11 Which of the following most closely describes the speaker's tone?

Hopeful and trepidatious

Distraught and mournful

Passionate and inspired

Neutral and slightly sorrowful
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

Each line contains six syllables except for the last, which contains five

The lines alternately contain six and eight syllables
14 This poem is a sonnet.

False

True
15 What does "an hour" represent in this poem?

It does not represent anything and literally means an hour of time

A fleeting and unspecified amount of time

The final moments of one's life

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

A tree

A seed

A flower

Another leaf
17 What does dawn "[go] down to" in this poem?

Night

Day

The earth

The horizon
18 Where does this poem's title reappear?

The first line

The final line

It does not reappear

At the end of the first stanza
19 How many stanzas does this poem contain?

Two

Four

One

Three
20 Each line of this poem is its own sentence.

False

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

False

True
22 This poem is an ode.

False

True
23 What "[sinks] to grief" in the poem?

A capsized ship

The speaker

Eden

A leaf in water
24 What is an "early leaf" compared to in the poem?

An infant

A flower

Gold

Imminent death
25 This poem uses rhyming quatrains.

True

False

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