Extended Metaphor

Extended Metaphor

Definition: A type of metaphor is a continuous metaphor that goes on until the sentence/paragraph ends.

Example:

• "Hope is the thing with feathers
  That perches in the soul,
  And sings the tune--without the words,
  And never stops at all,
  
  "And sweetest in the gale is heard;
  And sore must be the storm
  That could abash the little bird
  That kept so many warm.
  
  "I've heard it in the chillest land,
  And on the strangest sea;
  Yet, never, in extremity,
  It asked a crumb of me."
  
  ~by Emily Dickinson~

Significance: Extended Metaphor makes the poem more interesting and also help the writer express more of what they are trying to say than metaphor.