38 pages 1 hour read

Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1916

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Literary Device Answers

1. metaphor

2. A. In the first stanza, the last words of lines 1, 3, and 4 rhyme (“wood,” “stood,” and “could”) while the last words of lines 2 and 5 rhyme (“both” and “undergrowth”). This pattern holds true in the subsequent stanzas.

3. C. Alliteration is the repetition of the beginning sound of consecutive words.

A. While the tone may also be described as didactic or even preachy, from the list of options provided, “conversational” most accurately fits the seemingly simple recounting of the hiker’s walk in the woods.

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