I've been given the task of writing something using a poetic conceit. A conceit is like an extended metaphor and "invites the reader into a more sophisticated understanding of an object of comparison." The example given was John Donne's poem "The Flea".
While I understand The Flea, I don't understand what an extended metaphor is, or how to make the conceit work. So, um, help, please?
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