TODAY’S NEWS 1-29-15

share graff analysis/discuss as a class

Share one paragraph responses to effectiveness of Edward’s use of extended metaphor

peer score analysis essay “not about islam?” due tomorrow

1. “Bobby Holloway says my imagination is a three-hundred-ring circus. Currently I was in ring two hundred and ninety-nine, with elephants dancing and clowns cart wheeling and tigers leaping through rings of fire. The time had come to step back, leave the main tent, go buy some popcorn and a Coke, bliss out, cool down.”(Dean Koontz, Seize the Night. Bantam, 1999)

Here, it can be seen that the “circus” has been compared to the author’s “imagination”.

2. But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,Who is already sick and pale with grief.”(Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet)

Here again, Shakespeare has made use of extended metaphor by comparing “Juliet” with the “sun”.

EXTENDED METAPHOR - A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.

3. “But if you was LeBron James then I’d be Dwyane WadeWe both graduated at the same time from the same gradeHe was at the head of the class, on TV with celebrity acts,But that champion ring was one thing you never could grasp,I was slightly rated lower had to fight to gain exposureand that might’ve made me slowerbut now I have taken overAnd I’m down in Miami’s Heat,living my boyhood dreamsAnd for you to do what I’ve done,you’d have to join MY team!”-Iron Solomon

In the extract quoted above, Iron Solomon makes a comparison between “LeBron James” and “Dwyane Wade”.