Extended Metaphor in Poetry

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

Identify the extended metaphor:

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• None of these options

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--

Identify the original comparison:

• Hope to a song

• A song to "a thing with feathers"

• Birds to crumbs

• Hope to a bird

Why would a writer choose to extend a metaphor?

• To draw a clearer comparison and help the reader visualize

• To confuse the reader

• To compare to unlike things without explanation

• To make the reader come to his/her own conclusions

"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

"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"