Question

Read this excerpt from "Foreign Lands."

To where the roads on either hand
Lead onward into fairy land,
Where all the children dine at five,
And all the playthings come alive.

What is the effect of Robert Louis Stevenson’s use of figurative language in this stanza?

It shows that the author has the ability to see the future.
It emphasizes the dreamlike world of the speaker’s imagination.
It highlights that the speaker has visited many far-off places.
It illustrates what the speaker sees looking down from the tree.

Answer 1

It emphasizes the dreamlike world of the speaker’s imagination.

Stevenson’s phrases like “fairy land” and “playthings come alive” use imagery and personification to create a magical, imaginative mood rather than a literal description of travel, prediction, or an actual view.