The Road Not Taken

What is the speaker in the poem doing?

• taking a walk on a spring morning.

• delivering a package in the woods.

• Standing in front of two roads

• Getting ready for a trip.

What does the speaker encounter?

• a fork in the road

• a dragon

• a path full of black leaves

• a maze

What decision does the speaker have to make in the poem?

• He needs to put on a jacket.

• He needs to decide to go back to the beginning of the path and choose a different route.

• He has to decide to take a walk later.

• He has to decide which road to travel on.

Infer the season.

• Autumn

• Winter

• Spring

• Summer

What feeling does the speaker express in stanza two, "Then took the other, just as fair," "Yet knowing how way leads to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.

• anxiety about the choice made

• excitement about the adventures that may come

• finds either road the same

• Sadness that he has blackened the leaves.

What words help the reader understand what the word trodden means in stanza three

• black

• step

• first

• another

Why does the speaker include the last two lines of the poem

• He is unhappy because the roads diverged

• The speaker would have liked to do things differently

• The speaker is happy with the choices made in life

• He would like to go back and make a different choice

The poet is most likely comparing the two roads in the poem to

• choices in life

• obstacles

• a grassy road vs a yellow road

• a road in spring to a road in autumn

What is one likely theme of this poem?

• Make sure your path is a grassy one

• The path less traveled on is the better one

• It's best to choose a path, any path

• Yellow paths are the best

The Road Not Taken is an example of what figurative language

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

• idiom