Choose either Taylor’s "Huswifery" OR Bradstreet’s "To My Dear and Loving Husband". Part 1:

In one paragraph, identify the comparison in the extended metaphor. After you identify the comparison, explain what the author’s purpose is for using the metaphor. How does this contribute to the author’s message?
Part 2:

Find a song that uses extended metaphor. Print out or download the lyrics, and then, in one paragraph, identify the comparison in the extended metaphor. Explain what the author’s purpose is for using the metaphor. How does this contribute to the author’s message?
Part 3:

Refer to Bradstreet’s "To My Dear and Loving Husband".

Explain the meaning of the two following phrases as they are used in the poem. You may write the answer in one word or a short phrase.

I prize thy love
Thy love is such I can no way repay

In two separate sentences, use these phrases to illustrate their meanings as used in the poem. Your sentences should use subject matter that is different from the poem.

What is darrow’s main argument and the claims he makes in this excerpt? a. darrow argues that even if the boys are horrible monsters, their deaths will not solve the problems of society; he claims that society wants the boys to be executed because people enjoy watching public executions. b. he argues that the people who should be held responsible for the crime are leopold’s and loeb’s parents since they neglected their sons; he claims that leopold and loeb were jealous of the boy they killed because he had expensive belongings they could not afford. c. darrow argues that the boys should not face the death penalty; he claims they both suffer from mental illnesses that make them unable to tell the difference between a dream and reality. d. he argues that leopold and loeb, particularly dickie loeb, should not be executed; he claims they were teenagers who didn’t have proper adult guidance, so they are not responsible for what they did.

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion

Swift’s satire that tells of three brothers’ coats is