Nothing Gold Can Stay Quizzes

Nothing Gold Can Stay Quiz

1 Who is the speaker of this poem?

Nature

An unnamed first-person narrator

The Garden of Eden

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

This poem has no specific setting

Boston

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.

False

True
5 Nature in this poem is personified as female.

False

True
6 What does gold symbolize in this poem?

Sunlight

Tenderness and care

Monetary value

Youth, beauty, and goodness
7 Eden is personified in this poem as a woman.

False

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

True

False
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?

Distraught and mournful

Neutral and slightly sorrowful

Hopeful and trepidatious

Passionate and inspired
12 The speaker is unnamed.

False

True
13 How many syllables does each line contain?

The lines alternately contain eight and ten syllables

The lines alternately contain six and eight syllables

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

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

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?

Another leaf

A tree

A seed

A flower
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 final line

The first line

It does not reappear

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

Two

Three

Four

One
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.

False

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

A leaf in water

The speaker

Eden

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

An infant

Gold

A flower

Imminent death
25 This poem uses rhyming quatrains.

True

False

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