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The Road Not Taken
Mending Wall
Birches
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Frost is one of the most well-known __________ poets?
American poet
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What does the boy in the poem Birches symbolize?
Imaginary
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Why did the speaker feel sorry?
Because he could not travel on both roads
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Who initiates the annual fixing of the wall?
The speaker
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What actually bends the boughs of the birches?
Ice
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What famous colleges did he go to?
Dartmouth and Harvard
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The wall is _____ because, even though it separates the speaker from his neighbor, it also brings them together every year.
Ironic
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What season did the "yellow wood" in The Road Not Taken represent?
Autumn
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What does the speaker think about the wall?
It is unnecessary, because it only divides apple orchards from the pine trees
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What is a birch?
A tree
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How did he pass away?
Prostate Cancer
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"Good fences make good neighbors" is an example of a _____?
Paradox
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What do the two roads symoblize?
The choices we make in life
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During what season does the poem take place?
Spring
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What would the speaker rather think bent the birches?
A boy swinging on them
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How many Pulitzer Prizes did he win?
He won 4
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"Like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair" is an example of _____?
Simile
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I should ever come back." What does the speaker mean by that?
He could never take the other road
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What does the speaker mean when he says "Good fences make good neighbors"?
Personal space can improve relationships between two people
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What is the style of this poem?
Blank Verse
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What poem did he read at JFK's inauguration?
My Gift Outright
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"Because it was grassy and wanted wear" is an example of _____?
Personification
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What was the style of this poem?
Free Verse
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What is the style of this poem?
Blank Verse
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What is the main theme of this poem?
People get weighed down with life's anxieties, just like how the birch tree's branches get weighed down