Poem Structures
This poem is written in a single stanza of eight lines with a simple rhyme scheme.
Nothing Gold Can Stay
In “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” “Nature’s first green is gold” is an example of this device.
Metaphor
childish
This prefix can mean "back" or "again"
re
Bam!
onomatopoeia
“Good Hotdogs” has this many stanzas.
three
“Good Hotdogs” uses sensory description of taste and smell, which is this literary device.
Imagery
The speaker in "Those Winter Sundays" fears the "chronic angers" of his house. The word "chronic" hear means this.
repeated, constant or recurring
This prefix can mean "in" or "not"
in
She was as busy as a bee.
simile
Pairs of lines that rhyme at the end, like found in "Nothing Gold Can Stay" are called this
couplets
The phrase “put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached” is an example of this sound device.
Alliteration
These word in the first stanza of "Those Winter Sundays" provides the best clue about where the speaker's father worker.
weather
This suffix means "the action, result or condition of something"
ion
The trees danced in the wind.
personification
Identify two things Sandra Cisneros left out of "Good Hotdogs" so we could read it faster
punctuation and figurative language
(other options may also work here)
The Garden of Eden, alluded to in "Nothing Gold Can Stay" symbolizes (represents) this
paradise or perfection
"The store that smelled like steam" is not a simile because it is this
a literal comparison
This prefix means "through"
per
Words or phrases that appeal to the senses and help the reader paint a picture in their mind.
Imagery
This is the rhyme scheme for "Nothing Gold Can Stay."
a,a,b,b,c,c,d,d,
When Frost says “Eden sank to grief” in“Nothing Gold Can Stay,” this is an example of…
allusion or personification
The repetition in the line "What did I know? What did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?" reveals what tone or feeling at the end of "Those Winter Sundays"?
regret
These two roots both mean "look or see"
vis and spect
When you define an idea like "mother" based on its personal meaning or significance, you're using this.
connotation