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“Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost

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  • 1. Multiple Choice
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    What example of figurative language can be found in the following quote from the poem?

    “Nature's first green is gold,/Her hardest hue to hold.”

    repetition

    simile

    allusion

    personification

  • 2. Multiple Choice
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    The line, “Her hardest hue to hold,” shows alliteration (repetition of the h sound). Which of the following lines in the poem also shows alliteration?

    “Her early leaf's a flower”

    “But only so an hour”

    “So dawn goes down to day”

    “Nothing gold can stay”

  • 3. Multiple Choice
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    Green is not gold. In the first line, Frost is comparing the green of spring with something precious like gold. What literary device is being used here?

    oxymoron

    metaphor

    tone.

    allusion

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