Term #5 - EXTENDED METAPHOR

Example:

All the world's a stage,

And all the men and women merely players.

They have their exits and their entrances.

And one man in his time plays many parts.

definition:

not only like metaphor, using in comparing and describing something, extended metaphor extend the comparision and description into a larger scale, continuously, maybe in a whole sentence, a  whole poem.

significance:

with only metaphor, it only describe and compare, however, when the writer uses extended metaphor, it is now not simply description and comparision but it can teach a lesson, or even tell a story. extended metaphor is more colorful than metaphor, the readers can find the connection of the metaphor throughout stanzas, a poem.