Activity 8.6 page 206

Extract 1

1) It use the word 'as' to compare (simile) 'stedfast as thou art'.

2) The star is something figurative, maybe it refers to something that its far away and he want to have it.

3) He wants something and he is constantly watching what he wants.

Extract 2

1) Simile: 'as men strive for right' and 'as they turn from praise'.

2) The literal term is love.

3) In the 2 similies its expressed the way he loves her.

Extract 3

1) There are some metaphors, for example: 'Grave men'.

2) The literal term is that the grave men are near to death.

3) To be calm during bad moments.

Extract 4

1) Metaphor: 'I have spread my dreams under your feet'.

2) He might be dreaming with her.

3) Love. He would do everything to make her feel confortable.

Extract 5

1) 'Beauty is a fat black woman'. (metaphor).

2) It refers figuratively to the beauty of a black woman who is walking in the fields.

3) She might enjoy the life, whatever she looks like, because how we look physically isn't the most important, people is worth by what they have inside.