By Max ChambersPeriod 3

Conceit-•an elaborate, fanciful metaphor, esp. of

a strained or far-fetched nature, presented throughout an entire work

Post on Yahoo forum• Comparing a person crying to rain falling from the sky, for

example, is a pretty predictable metaphor, and therefore not a conceit. Comparing a person crying to the flow of traffic down a busy highway, however, is much more unpredictable and therefore a potentially effective conceit. The association between a person crying and traffic is more complex and allows the poet to convey more detailed, in-depth meanings about the subject: Maybe the person’s crying is a daily thing, like rush-hour traffic. Maybe the person’s tears flow as fast as cars streaming down a highway. . . . you get the idea

All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely

players;They have their exits and their entrances

What Shakespearean play is this passage from? What is the author comparing? Why is it significant?

(William Shakespeare, As You Like It, 2/7)

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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate.Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer's lease hath all too short a date

This excerpt comes from Shakespeare’s Sonnet #_____?______

18

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See! How she leans her cheek upon her hand:

O! that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek.

Who said it?

Romeo

“…as in Romeo and Juliet?”“That’s right, Zabe.”

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What is wrong with all of the given examples?• A) They are stupid.• B) They are all by William What’s-his-name?. • C) Mrs. Bear’s dog made them up.• D) You guys just want this presentation to be

over.• E) They are all written in a laconic manner,

expressing what a conceit is but not really elaborating on the metaphor presented, which is an important characteristic of a conceit or extended metaphor.

C) Mrs. Bear’s dog made them up.

E) They are all written in a laconic manner, expressing what a conceit is but not really elaborating on the metaphor presented, which is an important characteristic of a conceit or extended metaphor.

An extended metaphor, conceit, must be:•A) a distracter •B) intuitive•C) open to interpretation•D) far-fetched•E) humorous

D) far-fetched

I would like to give a BIG shout out to:

http://www.online-literature.com/donne/

http://www.dictionary.com http://www.wikipedia.org http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPI

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