Question

Read this excerpt from "Foreign Lands"

To where the roads on either hand
Lead onward into fairy land,
Where all the children dine at five,
And all the playthings come alive.
What is the effect of Robert Louis Stevenson's use of figurative language in this stanza?
O It shows that the author has the ability to see the future.
It emphasizes the dreamlike world of the speaker's imagination,
O It highlights that the speaker has visited many far-off places
O It illustrates what the speaker sees looking down from the tree.

Answer 1

The answer is; It emphasizes the dreamlike world of the speakers imagination.

Explanation:

Process of elimination first- The looking down from a tree answer just doesn't make any sense, and although the other sometimes speaks in present tense or of things going to happen, it doesn't mean he can see the future. He talks in a very creative way to spark the readers own imagination. Also the title, called "Foreign Lands" helps one come to the conclusion of in terms of how hes speaking, hes describing a new place.