Extended Metaphor Check for Understanding

A metaphor is...

• A literal comparison between two things

• A figurative comparison between two unlike things for effect

• A figurative comparison using "like" or "as"

• A commonly used expression

An extended metaphor...

• Puts multiple metaphors together

• Combines a metaphor with a simile

• Analyzes the purpose/effect of metaphors

• Develops a single metaphor over multiple lines

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What is the extended metaphor?

• Comparing nothing .

• Comparing “Hope” with a “bird”

• Comparing “Hope” with “feathers”

Why would an author use extended metaphor .?

• To provide a warning of something yet to come .

• To help the audience visualize the idea or story .

• To both create a stronger 'visual' experience and a stronger comparison .

• To create a stronger comparison between the two subjects .

Identify the extended metaphor:

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• None of these options

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Identify the extended metaphor:

• "My mom is a hero. My dad is a zero"

• "My house is a circus. We kids are monkeys bouncing around with no purpose, tightrope walkers balancing on the back legs of chairs, we fly like trapeze artists up and down the stairs"

• I wanna get married, like the Currys, Steph and Ayesha sh--/

  But we more like Belly, Tommy and Keisha sh--/

  Gave you TLC, you wanna creep and sh--

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which of following is an extended metaphor .?

• JOHN CENA! Doot doot doot doot. -Some Dude

• Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what your going to get. -Forrest Gump

• The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. -Thomas Jefferson

• I like chicken nuggets. -Avery

Which of the following is an extended metaphor.?

• Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything. -Alexander Hamilton

• Though, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest...

  Geo. Washington.

• Make your life a masterpiece; Imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do. -Brian Tracy

"Time is an endless roller-coaster ride: it stops for no one, and it keeps going round and round. Sometimes it feels fast, and sometimes it slows down." What is the original metaphor here?

• A roller-coaster and endless

• Time and a roller-coaster

• A ride and a roller-coaster

• A person and time

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

"Time is an endless roller-coaster ride: it stops for no one, and it keeps going round and round. Sometimes it feels fast, and sometimes it slows down." What is the FIRST line that makes this metaphor extended?

• "An endless roller coaster ride"

• "It stops for no one"

• "It keeps going round and round"

• "Sometimes it feels fast"

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