Figurative Language
What is a metaphor?
What is figuartive language that compares two objects/things without using the words "like" or "as".
What does "gold" represent in the poem?
What is youth, innocence, beauty?
JUDGE WILL DECIDE
If the leaves are golden, what time of year is it?
What is fall or autumn?
True or False; this poem has absolutely no rhyme whatsoever.
What is false?
The author' refers to nature as male or female?
What is female?
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
What can the reader infer from these two lines?
What is passing of time, life is not promises, etc...
JUDGE WILL DECIDE
What does Nature represent in this poem?
That even Nature and the most perfect things, nothing will stay forever.
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
What can the reader infer from these two lines?
What is something innocent and new is hard to keep innocent and new?
JUDGE WILL DECIDE
How many lines in this poem.
What is 8?
What does "So Dawn goes down to day"
What is the passing of time or the day ending at sunset?
What is this poem's rhyme scheme?
AA BB CC DD
An exaggeration of the truth.
What is hyperbole?
The year "Nothing Gold Can Stay" was written.
What is 1923?
Nature's first green is gold means -
What is when something is new it is innocent and untouched by life?
THE JUDGE WILL DECIDE.
Another name for "rhyme" is called -
What is assonance?