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EXTENDED METAPHOR

EXTENDED METAPHOR. A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a story, in a paragraph, or lines in a poem.

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EXTENDED METAPHOR

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  1. EXTENDED METAPHOR • A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a story, in a paragraph, or lines in a poem.

  2. "Bobby Holloway says my imagination is a three-hundred-ring circus. Currently I was in ring two hundred and ninety-nine, with elephants dancing and clowns cartwheeling and tigers leaping through rings of fire. The time had come to step back, leave the main tent, go buy some popcorn and a Coke, bliss out, cool down." • (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night. Bantam, 1999)

  3. "I graduated from the University of Life. All right? I received a degree from the School of Hard Knocks. And our colors were black and blue, baby. I had office hours with the Dean of Bloody Noses. All right? I borrowed my class notes from Professor Knuckle Sandwich and his Teaching Assistant, Ms. Fat Lip Thon Nyun. That’s the kind of school I went to for real, okay?" • Will Ferrell, Commencement Address at Harvard • http://blog.flocabulary.com/extended-metaphor/

  4. Why Writers Use it • Extended metaphors allow writers to - draw a larger comparison between two things or ideas - allow the audience to visualize a complex idea in a memorable way -They highlight a comparison in a more intense way than simple metaphors or similes.

  5. What’s the Extended Metaphor? • “Run on the track like Jesse Owens/Broke the record flowin’, without any knowin’/That my wordplay run the four hundred meter relay/It’s on once I grab the baton from the DJ/A athlete with his iron cleat in the ground/Wildest who sprint off the gun sound/The best time yet still seven-point-zero/Swift flow made the cameramen clothes blow.” • -GZA

  6. “But if you was LeBron James then I’d be Dwyane Wade/We both graduated at the same time from the same grade/He was at the head of the class, on TV with celebrity acts,/But that champion ring was one thing you never could grasp,/I was slightly rated lower had to fight to gain exposure/and that might’ve made me slower/but now I have taken over/And I’m down in Miami’s Heat,/living my boyhood dreams/And for you to do what I’ve done,/you’d have to join MY team!” • -Iron Solomon

  7. 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,

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