There where it is we do not need the wall: He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat t
he cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, "Good fences make good neighbours." What effect does Frost's use of figurative language have on the overall meaning of this excerpt? A. Frost's use personification to attribute human qualities to the apple trees emphasizes the necessity of the wall. B. Frost's use of metaphor to compare the apple trees to the pine trees emphasizes the difference between the neighbors. C. Frost's use of metaphor to give the apple trees the qualities of grazing animals emphasizes that the wall is unnecessary. D. Frost's use of personification to attribute human qualities to the wall emphasizes the idea that the wall is between the neighbors.
Answer: C. Frost's use of metaphor to give the apple trees the qualities of grazing animals emphasizes that the wall is unnecessary.
Explanation: figurative language is the use of words or expressions to convey a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation. A metaphor is a figure of speech that consists in making a direct comparison between elements that aren't obviously related, in order to create an image in the reader's mind. In the given excerpt Frost uses a metaphor that compares the apple trees to grazing animals ("My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines"), this helps to emphasize that the wall is unnecessary.
