Identify one example of figurative language in Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" and explain how it relates to the poem's larg

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Identify one example of figurative language in Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" and explain how it relates to the poem's larg

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Naddik [55] · Answer 1 · 2022-05-03T23:38:19+03:00

This poem is an example of an extended metaphor.

A metaphor is a comparison between two things that are not alike. In this case, a road and life are being compared. In this extended metaphor, the speaker never actually makes a direct comparison between life and the road. In other words, he does not say life is a road. Yet the entire poem implies it.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--

I took...