Figurative Language & Identifying the Text

Please identify (underline) and explain the metaphor in the following stanza from The Road Not Taken:

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

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CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

Please select the correct correct description of a simile.

• The turtle and the grandma walked at the same pace.

• That party was the bomb!

• The alarm rang loudly in the ears of the students.

• The grandma was as slow as a turtle.

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Please describe the imagery being used in the following sentences from The Tuft of Flowers by Robert Frost:

"That made me hear the wakening birds around,

And hear his long scythe whispering to the ground,..."

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CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

How does figurative language such as metaphors, similes, foreshadowing, etc. enhance a text?

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Please select the best description of the poem, The Road Not Taken.

• The Road Not Taken is a short story that Robert Frost wanted to convey because of the things he experienced in his personal life.

• The Road Not Taken is a poem written with similes that try to communicate a fantasy to the reader.

• The Road Not Taken is poem written in the form of mostly metaphors to describe how choosing certain opportunities or making certain decisions in life can alter your future and make a difference in the end.

• The Road Not Taken is full of imagery because Robert Frost loved the outdoors and wanted to use this in a poem to show his love for the woods.

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4