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.

True

False
5 Nature in this poem is personified as female.

True

False
6 What does gold symbolize in this poem?

Tenderness and care

Monetary value

Youth, beauty, and goodness

Sunlight
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

True

False
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

Hopeful and trepidatious

Neutral and slightly sorrowful

Passionate and inspired
12 The speaker is unnamed.

True

False
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?

The full span of a lifetime

A fleeting and unspecified amount of time

The final moments of one's life

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

The earth

Night

The horizon

Day
18 Where does this poem's title reappear?

At the end of the first stanza

The final line

It does not reappear

The first line
19 How many stanzas does this poem contain?

Three

Two

Four

One
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.

True

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

A leaf in water

A capsized ship

The speaker

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

Imminent death

A flower

An infant

Gold
25 This poem uses rhyming quatrains.

True

False

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