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Copy of RL.CS.4: Nothing Gold Can Stay (9/2/2025)

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 Figurative Language & Tone: Nothing Gold Can Stay

Instructions

 Figurative Language & Tone: Nothing Gold Can Stay

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Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

-Rober Frost

Question 1

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What feeling does the phrase 'Nothing Gold Can Stay' convey?

Duration of gold

Impressiveness of fleeting beauty

Joyfulness

Peacefulness

Question 2

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Which figurative language is 'her hardest hue to hold' an example of?

Onomatopoeia

Metaphor

Personification

Simile

Question 3

3.

What does the phrase 'Dawn goes down to day' symbolize?

Energy of youth

A new beginning

Continuity of time

The inevitability of loss

Question 4

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What effect does the use of alliteration have in 'Nothing Gold Can Stay'?

Emphasizes the emotion and tone

Creates confusion

Makes the poem longer

Makes it humorous