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| tells a story; ballad or epic in style |
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| a song like poem that tells a story, often one dealing with adventure or romance |
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| a long narrative poem that tells a story of the deeds of gods or heroes, full of sentiment |
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| a group of lines in a poem; considered a unit |
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| a repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song |
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| pattern of beats or stresses in written or spoken language |
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| the regular pattern of accents that underline a metrical verse |
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| the basic unit of measurement of a verse: usually contains one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables |
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| a metrical foot consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable |
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| a line consisting of five metrical feet |
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| a metrical foot consisting of one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable |
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| a line consisting of four metrical feet |
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| a highly musical verse that expresses the feeling of a person |
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| Speaker of The Road Not Taken |
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| a person choosing a path in life |
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| Occasion of The Road Not Taken |
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| recalling having having a difficult choice |
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| Audience of The Road Not Taken |
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| others struggling with a challenging choice |
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| Purpose of The Road Not Taken |
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| Subject of The Road Not Taken |
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| Tone of The Road Not Taken |
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| imparactional and remaresten |
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| a child who wants to be know |
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| writing own name and having his/her mom erase it |
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| other people who want to be know |
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| 1st Title of The Road Not Taken |
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| a road someone (speaker) did not take |
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| Paraphrase of The Road Not Taken |
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| the speaker made a choice that has made him a better person and he feels it was a good choice |
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| Connotation of The Road Not Taken |
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| the two roads are a metaphor for two important potentially life-changing choices |
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| Attitude of The Road Not Taken |
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| Shifts of The Road Not Taken |
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| Betw. stanzes 3-4 it shifts from the days the speaker made the choice to reflecting on the choice later |
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| 2nd Title of The Road Not Taken |
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| Deciding to make the hard choice that made him a better person instead of following the crowd. |
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| Theme of The Road Not Taken |
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| This is a poem about being a leader instead of a follower |
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| 1st Title of Because I Could Not Stop For Death |
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| The speaker is too busy to die |
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| Paraphrase of Because I Could Not Stop For Death |
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| Death takes the speaker for a ride in a carriage. They pass different times of her life from childhood to death. |
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| Connotation of Because I Could Not Stop For Death |
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| The author personifies Death, Eternity and Immortally to make them less scary |
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| Attitude of Because I Could Not Stop For Death |
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| Shifts of Because I Could Not Stop For Death |
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| Betw. stanzas 4 and 5 it shifts from the journey of death and eternity |
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| 2nd Title of Because I Could Not Stop For Death |
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| death comes when it wants- we can not control it. |
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| Theme of Because I Could Not Stop For Death |
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| This a poem that death is natural thing in life that can not be stopped |
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