Extended-metaphor


noun
1.
a introduced and then further developed throughout all or part of a literary work, especially a poem: Robert Frost uses two roads as an extended metaphor in “The Road Not Taken.”.
2.
a literary work that contains an extended metaphor.
noun

a metaphor that is extended through a stanza or entire poem, often by multiple comparisons of unlike objects or ideas

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