TODAY’S NEWS  Extended metaphors in “Sinners”  discuss “not about islam?”  “rival conceptions of god” for hw  History of the cold war  begin Good night, and good luck

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 Wade We both graduated at the same time from the same grade He 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 exposure and that might’ve made me slower but now I have taken over And I’m down in Miami’s Heat, living my boyhood dreams And 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”.