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πŸ” Craft & Structure: Literature: The Road Not Taken (Grade 10)

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Read closely. Think about how the author wrote it.

The Road Not Taken β€” Robert Frost (1916, public domain)

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;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and Iβ€”
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Vocabulary: diverged β€” determine its meaning from context: ________________

1. Identify the point of view. How does it shape what the reader knows?
2. Identify a literary device (figurative language, imagery, symbolism). Explain its effect on meaning or tone.
3. How does the structure (order of events, pacing, turning point) contribute to the meaning?
4. Analyze how a specific word choice affects tone.
Answer key: first-person speaker; device: extended metaphor (roads as life choices); irony between stanzas 2–3 and stanza 4; structure: four stanzas, ABAAB rhyme Β· diverged = split and went in different directions
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Worksheets β€Ί Grade 10 English β€Ί Craft & Structure β€Ί Craft & Structure

Grade 10 (ages 15–16)Reading comprehensionFree printable PDF

About this grade 10 worksheet

Free Grade 10 English worksheet (Common Core RL.9-10.4): analyze point of view, word choice and structure in "The Road Not Taken". Skill: Word choice, structure and point of view. Level: Grade 10 β€” also suits Year 11 (UK).

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