extended metaphor
collocation in Englishmeaningsofextendedandmetaphor
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extended
adjective[before noun]
uk/ɪkˈsten.dɪd/us/ɪkˈsten.dɪd/
long or longer ...
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metaphor
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈmet.ə.fɔːr/us/ˈmet̬.ə.fɔːr/
an expression, often found in literature, that describes a person or object by referring to something that is considered to have similar characteristics to that person ...
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(Definition ofextendedandmetaphorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofextended metaphor
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It is difficult to do justice to a work of scholarship that is written in the form of anextendedmetaphor.
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In a larger sense, theextendedmetaphorof physical work maps the intellectual onto the bodily self, projecting a union which is glimpsed as both ' ' wholesome and belonging.
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Thisextendedmetaphorsketches out in broad strokes the nature of the fear of triviality with which the commentator has to wrestle.
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Mitchell is forced to use real buildings and the real city as his only means of explaining, through anextendedmetaphor, how different cyberspace will be.
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She likens herself to a wave in anextendedmetaphor, explaining that she will love him on her terms only.
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The song is a dramatic ballad, featuring anextendedmetaphor.
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Theextendedmetaphorof crossing of bar represents traveling serenely and securely from life through death.
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As a literary device, an allegory in its most general sense is anextendedmetaphor.
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However, at a second, allegorical level, the ocean layers serve as anextendedmetaphorfor a journey into the inner depths of the psyche.
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Allegorical verse uses anextendedmetaphorto provide the framework for the whole work.
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On another level, the novel is itself anextendedmetaphorfor the way in which extrapolated futures are created.
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Cohen maintains that panic is a suitable term when used as anextendedmetaphor.
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Wharton found the notion of the tragic sledding crash to be irresistible as a potentialextendedmetaphorfor the wrongdoings of a secret love affair.
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Obviously the aim is not to encourage them to coin new metaphors or even to re-use extended metaphors.
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Through representational strategies that plumbed extended metaphors of masculine invigoration an opposition to the emasculating connotations of sociological critique was discernible.
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His settings and imagery are familiar but often quirky, utilizing extended metaphors and juxtaposing the mundane with the transcendent in sometimes disturbing ways.
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There are two extended metaphors that run through ghazalsthe joys of drinking and the agony of separation from the beloved.
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