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Robert FrostThe Road Not Taken
Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1916A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
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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