The Road Not Taken

What is happening in this poem?

• The speaker is lost in the woods.

• The speaker is choosing a road to travel on.

• The speaker is going back to a favorite place.

• The speaker is growing older and less able to travel.

What do the following lines from "The Road Not Taken" mean?
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, 

• The speaker thinks both paths are equally good.
• The speaker is only one person and cannot go down two roads at the same time.
• The speaker would rather travel with someone, so they could each explore a path.
• The speaker regrets not taking the other road at the start.

Which of the following words is closest in meaning to the word diverged?

• divided
• presented
• conformed
• unequaled 

The author of this poem is ____.

• Walt Whitman
• Ponyboy Curtis
• Robert Frost
• Anne Frank

. Interpret what "roads" symbolize in the poem.

• having a long or short life

• successes and failures

• . choices we make in life

• events and people

Which theme does the speaker develops throughout the poem?

• people need to have problems in life

• people should not make choices

• how to quickly make important decisions

• people need to make choices in life.

Determine what is happening in the first two stanzas :

• the speaker comes to two roads and has to decide which one to take

• the speaker is traveling

• the speaker is hiking through the grassland

• the speaker thinks life is not fair

Infer the season.

• Autumn

• Winter

• Spring

• Summer

The Road Not Taken is an example of what figurative language

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

• idiom

Based on the poem, the reader can conclude that the speaker is

• indecisive.
• being creative.
• making choices
• polite.