Read the lines from Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken.” Then answer two questions.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
​1.​What do the two roads symbolize?

​2.​What theme might Frost be trying to express through the use of the road as a symbol?


​Directions: Read the passage. Then answer the question that follows.

Lydia goes to the city to become an actress. The night before she leaves, her mother gives her a silver locket. It first belonged to Lydia’s grandmother, who gave it to Lydia’s mother on her wedding day. In the city, Lydia wears the locket when she needs good luck at an audition or when she feels lonely.


​​What is the locket a symbol of?