At this point in the play, Mary Warren is trying to insist that all of the girls that are accusing people of being witches are faking it. She tells the judges that "it were all pretense," and tries to convince them that they all just got carried away because they were originally afraid of getting in trouble over being caught in the woods dancing and doing other things. So, judge Hathorne and Parris step up, saying that they had seen her faint away before them in court, before their very eyes, and that when they touched her in her faint, she "were icy cold." They ask her how this was possible, and when she says that she was pretending, they are incredulous, and don't really believe her. At this point, they want her to prove that she can pretend, just like she does in court. They ask her to faint, right there and then.
Mary, put under a severe amount of pressure, with the judges and all of the girls (whom she is accusing of lying) watching her, has to try to pretend to faint. While this might seem simple, the pressure gets to her, and she can't do it. The judges are exultant, thinking that they have just proved her a liar--if she can pretend in court and can't now, then she MUST have been bewitched in the court, right? Mary insists that she "has no feeling for it now," and tries to explain the concept of mass hysteria. She says that in the courtroom, all of the girls were screaming, going into hysterics, and that the judges believed them, and she just got caught up in the drama, and that is what heightened her emotions and enabled her to faint there. Anyone who has been caught up in the crowd at a concert, or screamed in a movie theater because everyone else screamed can relate to the poor Mary and her predicament.
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Answer:
I believe the option that is a conceit in the selection to be:
D) the poet's willingness to accept the same fate as a flower
Explanation:
A conceit is a type of figure of speech. It is similar to an extended metaphor, but it uses unconventional comparisons. In other words, it goes beyond by providing an intellectual and complex comparison between two things that are dissimilar. Conceit seems to be quite common in metaphysical poetry, since metaphysical poets tend to develop their subjects and topics in a more intellectualized or sophisticated manner.
<u>Having that in mind, we can see how comparing one's life to that of a flower is quite metaphorical. But Herbert goes beyond. Not only does he compare his life to that of a flower, but he even accepts the same fate. The flower does not live long, but it does serve a purpose both when it is alive and when it is dead (ornament and cures, respectively). The speaker wishes the same for himself - he wants his life to be as purposeful as the flowers, even if he does not live for a long time. That seems to be quite a metaphysical interpretation of the comparison and, therefore, a conceit.</u>
I woke up in the woods alone just stranded in the middle of nowhere nothing to be seen but just tall trees and insects crawling on me. Suddenly I felt as if I were being watched, I looked back and next thing I knew a thin, slimy arm reached out from behind the leaves of a bush, I slowly then saw a scaly green leg and tried dragging me across the woods. I was able to escape and I ran as fast as I could and I never looked back.
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