An extended metaphor, also known as a conceit or sustained metaphor, is the use of a single metaphor or analogy at length in a work of literature. It...

metaphor is generally considered more forceful than a simile. The metaphor category contains these specialized types: Allegory: An extended metaphor wherein...

"O Captain! My Captain!" is an extended metaphor poem written by Walt Whitman in 1865 about the death of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln. Well received...

comparitionis) is implicit: fog creeps in silently like a cat. An extended metaphor is a metaphor that is continued over multiple sentences. Example: "The sky...

available, such as a desk calculator or notepad, etc. The desktop metaphor itself has been extended and stretched with various implementations of desktop environments...

lacks traditional orthography and punctuation. This poem uses an extended metaphor in favor of emotions by negatively equating grammar with thought and...

considered that Tennyson wrote it in elegy; the narrator uses an extended metaphor to compare death with crossing the "sandbar" between the river of...

blood from the male speaker and his female lover, to serve as an extended metaphor for the relationship between them. The speaker tries to convince a...

Other early allegories are found in the Hebrew Bible, such as the extended metaphor in Psalm 80 of the Vine and its impressive spread and growth, representing...

Illness as Metaphor is a 1978 work of critical theory by Susan Sontag, in which she challenged the victim-blaming in the language that is often used to...

of common English-language idioms based on baseball, excluding the extended metaphor referring to sex, and including illustrative examples for each entry...

Laxmikant–Pyarelal's "Tere Mere Beech Mein" (1981). Its lyrics draw an extended metaphor of a lover as a dangerous and addictive drug. "Toxic" received acclaim...

surprising metaphor whose appeal is more intellectual than emotional. Extended metaphor (aka sustained metaphor): the exploitation of a single metaphor or analogy...

being assaulted with Pig's Blood. The film uses cannibalism as an extended metaphor for the horror and uncertainty that can come with entering academia...

of Germany's Weimar Republic-era, specifically 1920s Berlin. In an extended metaphor, Manson compares his own work to the Entartete Kunst banned by the...

the form of a message delivered by God to Ezekiel. It presents an extended metaphor in which Samaria and Jerusalem are compared to sisters named Oholah...

a second part, that would have been logically expected. Parable: extended metaphor told as an anecdote to illustrate or teach a moral lesson. Paradiastole:...

description. Writers working within the genre tend to avoid adverbs, extended metaphor and internal monologue, instead allowing objects and context to dictate...

over a slight rewrite. In the delivered speech, Wallace concluded an extended metaphor with, "It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit...

Stereogum writer Tom Breihan interpreted the song's Africa as an "extended metaphor" – a "stand-in [for] a thing that you long for even before you've...

literary schools. The Baroque characterised by its use of ornamentation, extended metaphor and wordplay Giambattista Marino, Lope de Vega, John Donne, Vincent...

Musically, "Dress You Up" is a dance-pop song whose lyrics are an extended metaphor for fashion and lust, comparing dressing up with passion. Upon release...

inspired by the swing and burlesque movements of 1920s Berlin. In an extended metaphor found throughout the record, Manson compared his own often-criticized...

literally reached the stars before midnight tonight. " With this extended metaphor, Kennedy sought to imbue a sense of urgency and change in his audience...

A cuckoo's egg is a metaphor for brood parasitism, where a parasitic bird deposits its egg into a host's nest, which then incubates and feeds the chick...

also enjoyed the political commentary, as she felt certain elements were metaphors to authoritarianism and fascism. She primarily enjoyed Wilson's performance...

notion of the tragic sledding crash to be irresistible as a potential extended metaphor for the wrongdoings of a secret love affair. Lenox is also where Wharton...

the context of the last film "Chinatown" is used primarily as an extended metaphor for any situation in which an outside entity seeks to intervene without...

and Its Metaphors is a 1989 work of critical theory by Susan Sontag. In this companion book to her Illness as Metaphor (1978), Sontag extends her arguments...

toward Troy, where he will slay Hector, is illustrated through an extended metaphor about the baleful effects attending the return of Sirius: The rising...