The Art of Metaphor

The Art of Metaphor

Writing with Purpose - Extended Metaphor.

Multiple Select

Which of the following inferences about the speaker is best supported by the first stanza?

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

• The speaker prefers country life over city life.

• The speaker thinks long and hard about his life’s choices before he makes them.

• The speaker doesn’t like weeds.

• The speaker is lonely for someone else.

Multiple Select

Why most likely does the speaker choose “the path that is grassy and wanted wear”?

• The speaker likes grass instead of dirt under his feet.

• The speaker doesn’t like grass that has been trampled on.

• The speaker wants to take the path that looks like it has been traveled less.

• The speaker wants to go to a place where the cost of living is cheaper.

Multiple Select

Which of these inferences about the speaker is best supported by stanzas 3 and 4?

• He wishes there were a third path to choose from.

• He knows that there’s no going back once certain choices are made.

• He has no desire to get off the path he’s on.

• He feels he may be making a mistake about the path he is taking.

Open Ended

What evidence in the text of the poem shows you that the speaker is uncertain about which road to choose? Cite evidence from the text to support your answer.

Open Ended

What is the speaker of the poem asking the reader to do? How can you tell?

Multiple Select

"Theories of Time and Space" is written in ______ tense, from a ____ point of view.

• present; first-person

• present; second-person

• present; third-person limited

• present; third-person omniscient

Multiple Select

What is most closely the definition of conclusion as it is used in the passage below (lines 7-11)?

Follow this to its natural conclusion - dead en

at the coast, the pier at Gulfport where riggings of shrimp boats are loose stitches

in a sky threatening rain.

• noun | a final decision or judgment

• noun | the end of a process

• noun | an opinion arrived at by argument or reasoning

• noun | the final paragraph of an essay

Open Ended

Prompt

POETRY: “Theories of Time and Space” seems to be about a journey, more specifically the speaker’s personal rules of the road. Imagine that you, like the speaker, go on a journey of your own. What do you see? What do you record in your “tome of memory”? Write a poem in any style to express your journey.