Read this excerpt from Robert Frost's poem "Mending Wall":

There where it is we do not need the wall:

He is all pine and I am apple orchard.

My apple trees will never get across

And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.

He only says, "Good fences make good neighbours."

What effect does Frost's use of figurative language have on the overall meaning of this excerpt?

A. The metaphor comparing apple trees to grazing animals emphasizes that the wall is unnecessary.

B. The use of personification to show the grazing apple trees emphasizes the necessity of the wall.

C. The metaphor comparing apple trees to pine trees emphasizes that the neighbors have different opinions.

D. The use of personification to bring the wall to life emphasizes that a larger wall is needed.

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Johnny Burke

29 October, 08:06

Read this excerpt from Robert Frost's poem "Mending Wall":

There where it is we do not need the wall:

He is all pine and I am apple orchard.

My apple trees will never get across

And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.

He only says, "Good fences make good neighbours."

What effect does Frost's use of figurative language have on the overall meaning of this excerpt?

A. The metaphor comparing apple trees to grazing animals emphasizes that the wall is unnecessary.

B. The use of personification to show the grazing apple trees emphasizes the necessity of the wall.

C. The metaphor comparing apple trees to pine trees emphasizes that the neighbors have different opinions.

D. The use of personification to bring the wall to life emphasizes that a larger wall is needed.

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Ernest · Answer 1

A. Frost is explaining that one farm has apple trees which cannot move on their own, so they will never move forward to eat the pine cones under the neighbor's pine trees. If they had grazing animals it would be necessary for the fence to be there because it would stop the animals from crossing properties and eating off of each other's land, but they don't.