1. Metaphor

2. metaphor
Metaphors use the comparison or contrast of two unlike objects to create one image or feeling.
Metaphors are used in all forms of writing and are common in ordinary speech.
Metaphors can sometimes be cliché.

3. Extended Metaphors
An extended metaphor is a metaphor that is developed over several lines of writing or even through an entire work.

4. O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! by Walt Whitman
O CAPTAIN! my captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring.
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red!
Where on the deck my captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
O captain! my captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up for you the flag is flung for you the bugle trills
For you bouquets and wreaths for you the shores a-crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning.
O Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head;
It is some dream that on the deck
You’ve fallen cold and dead.

5. My captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will.
The ship is safe and sound, its voyage closed and done:
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won!
Exult, O shores! and ring, O bells!
But I, with silent tread,
Walk the spot my captain lies
Fallen cold and dead.

6. EXTENDED METAPHORS
for “O Captain! My Captain!” = =

7. Extended metaphors can appeal to the senses, like imagery.
a spicy personality (taste)
the sweet rain (smell or taste)
a velvet whisper (sound or touch)
face full of sunshine (sight)
blanket of snow (sight or touch)

8. FOG by: Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

9. To write an extended metaphor
TO WHAT SENSES DO THESE WORDS APPEAL?
rocky
cold
broad
distant

10. + To write an extended metaphor
He was a rocky cliff. His shoulders were a straight, broad ridge, snow-cold and distant.