Tuesday, 7 October 2014

Assignment 4-Extended metaphor

The term extended metaphor refers to a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem. 

An example of an extended metaphor I chose was from Shakespeare's play "As You Like It" 

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.”

In the metaphor above, Shakespeare has compared the world to a stage.

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