Similes and Metaphors

What is an Extended Metaphor .?

• An allegory

• A comparison

• A particularly long sentence with a metaphor in it .

• A metaphor which is developed in detail and throughout lines and sentences or line in a poem .

Where can extended metaphor be used .?

• In all types of literature

• In poems only

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 .

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

I’ve been the archer, I’ve been the prey” is an example of a ...

• Simile

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole .

Which is an metaphor .?

• Her long hair was Flowing golden river .

• Her long hair is flowing like an golden river .