Metaphor and Extended Metaphor

A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity without using the words like or as.

Definition of Metaphor

It is raining cats and dogs. Love is a fragile flower opening to the

warmth of Spring. He has the heart of a lion. You are the sun in my sky.

... Example

A metaphor that continues throughout a series of sentences, through a stanza or a poem, often by multiple comparisons of unlike objects or ideas. With the purpose of expanding or clarifying an idea.

Definition of Extended Metaphor

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer's lease hath all too short a date:Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;But thy eternal summer shall not fadeNor lose possession of that fair thou owest;Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou growest:So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,So long lives this and this gives life to thee

-William Shakespeare

...Example

Hope Is The ThingHope is the thing with feathersThat perches in the soul,And sings the tune--without the words,And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;And sore must be the stormThat could abash the little birdThat kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,And on the strangest sea;Yet, never, in extremity,It asked a crumb of me.

-Emily Dickinson

…Another Example

You can tell metaphors apart from extended metaphors by this:

Metaphors-◦ You only have one/a few comparisons through out

the poem ranging on different objects Extended Metaphors-

◦ Many comparisons through out the poem all relating to the main theme

How to Tell?

What do the following metaphors compare:◦ The inside of the car was a refrigerator. ◦ The teenage boy’s stomach was a bottomless pit. ◦ The homework was a breeze.◦ Her dog was the sunshine of her life.◦ Cindy was such a mule. We couldn’t get her to

change her mind.

What Are They Comparing?

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