Read these lines from Robert Frost's "The Road Not
Taken."
Which statement best describes these lines and why?
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;
O These lines are an example of a metaphor, because
the entire poem is about two different wooded paths
that exist in nature.
O These lines are an example of a metaphor, because
the author describes the trip he takes down the path
he chooses.
These lines are an introduction to an extended
metaphor, because they are introduced early in the
poem and developed as the poem continues.
These lines are an example of an extended
metaphor, because they are repeated at both the
beginning and end of the poem.
Then took the other, as just as fair