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camino
camino
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College - Senior

  In "The Road Not Taken", which rhetorical devices does Frost use to show the main theme?

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Posted by camino on Sunday November 4, 2007 at 8:30 PM and tagged with birches, rhetorical devices.

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  1. sullymonster Teacher
    Community / Jr. College

    The central device used in this poem is metaphor.  The diverging paths in the woods are used as a metaphor for choices in life.  Does the speaker take a life path that follows an easy path, or does the speaker take a risk by carving his own path?

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    http://www.enotes.com/salem-lit/road-not-taken

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    Posted by sullymonster on Sunday November 4, 2007 at 8:52 PM