Read the excerpt from As You Like It by William Shakespeare.All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances.What do Shakespeare's metaphors most likely mean?

Shakespeare compares the world to a stage and people to actors who enter and leave it. The metaphor suggests that people take on different roles as they move through life. Choice A, “People play different roles throughout their lives,” best expresses this idea; the excerpt does not say that everyone goes through the same phases.

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