In this excerpt from the Reverend Jesse Jackson’s speech to the Democratic National Convention in 1988, Jackson develops an interesting “extended” metaphor. Although Jackson and Taylor are comparing different things, what are 2 similarities both the excerpt and the poem share?

“America’s not a blanket, woven from one thread, one color, one cloth. When I was a child growing up in Greenville, South Carolina, and Grandmother could not afford a blanket, she didn’t complain, and we did not freeze. Instead she took pieces of old cloth–patches, wool, silk, gabardine, crockersack on the patches–barely good enough to wipe off your shoes with. But they didn’t stay that way very long. With sturdy hands and a strong cord, she sewed them together into a quilt, a thing of beauty and power and culture. Now…we must build such a quilt.” Jesse Jackson