Identify one example of figurative language in Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" and explain how it relates to the poem's larger themes.

This poem is an example of an extended metaphor.

A metaphor is a comparison between two things that are not alike. In this case, a road and life are being compared. In this extended metaphor, the speaker never actually makes a direct comparison between life and the road. In other words, he does not say life is a road. Yet the entire poem implies it.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--

I took ...