What is an extended metaphor?

An extended metaphor is a metaphor that is continued into the next sentence and throughout a section of text. Several poems use extended metaphors and Shakespeare and Frost used it in their pieces.

the whole thing is an extended metaphor

A metaphor is a figure of speech in which two dissimilar things are used to make a comparison, but an extended metaphor is a comparison that is continuously being made throughout a written work (more commonly in poetry).

An extended metaphor is when one compares something to something else for several sentences. Authors like William Shakespeare often use extended metaphors in their writing.

unsurprisingly an extended metaphor.

A use of extended metaphor.

An extended metaphor is a metaphor that is started early in the work, usually at the beginning, but it can be added later, that evolves and stretches itself throughout the passage. For example if you were to write a paper, and use a road as a metaphor for the path of life, and you were to develop and use this metaphor throughout the paper then it would be an extended metaphor.

what is the metaphor in douglass by paul lawrence dunbar?

A metaphor that is used more than once in different ways

The extended metaphor in the poem Your Father as a Guitar by Martin Espada would be the father as the guitar, as stated in the poem. An extended metaphor is a literary device that is used to compare two or more things for the entirety of a work - such as a poem, play, or novel.

The extended metaphor is the comparison of blake comparing the anger and the poison tree. He is saying that he kept in his anger and it grew into a poison apple on the tree.

The metaphor in this poem is an extended metaphor of conformity vs the individual. Throughout the poem the composer uses the two paths as a metaphor to take the path of conformity and to the path of the individual

A metaphor is an implied comparison between one thing and another for literary effect. If the comparison dwells on multiple areas of comparison, it is an extended metaphor. "In the night sky of her face, her eyes were stars beneath the windblown rainclouds of her curling hair."

The whole speech is one big extended metaphor. "All the world's a stage . . .", well like a stage anyway. Which is why this is a metaphor.

An allegory is a metaphor extended to the length of a story.

This is called an extended metaphor. If it is developed as a plot or story it is an allegory.

An extended metaphor that explores the link between two different objects

People say he was two-faced

"Find it yourself lazy a$$"

All the world's a stage by William Shakespear

a metaphor that goes on throught the poem, e.g. it starts 'i opend up the ocean' then ends 'now the sea is mine'.

I think that the extended metaphor is the actual title, "Mother to Son", and it is this because in the poem life is compared to a crystal staircase.

cant... it extends throughout the entire text

It is a poetic convention utilized by the Metaphysical poets as a greatly extended metaphor.

It is a extended metaphor between an outhouse and a poem