1. Not your ordinary figurative language
Extended metaphors
Not your ordinary figurative language
Today, we are taking another look at metaphors, by looking at an extended metaphor. This will help us better understand a poem and the word relationships inside poems.

2. Figurative Language review
M - METAPHOR O - ONOMATOPOIEA P - PERSONIFICATION S - SIMILE A - ALLITERATION H – HYPERBOLE Puns, Idioms, Allusions….

3. A metpahor is….
A COMPARISON OF TWO UNLIKE THINGS WITHOUT USING LIKE OR AS
EX:
Love is a battlefield
Time is money
Hope is the thing with feathers
Now, metaphors are something several people expressed getting frustrated with. We know that simile’s and metaphors are very similer. But similes are easier to pick out because of the like or as, BUT
Metaphors while not having like or as still do make a comparison.
We could say love is a battlefield and it is a metaphor OR we can say love is like a battlefield and it is a simile.
Same for time is money. That’s a metaphor. Time is like money is a simile.
Just remember that the comparison is between two unlike things and the point is to show how in some ways they are alike. Like this quote. Hope is the thing with feathers. Hope is literally not a thing with feathers. But like we looked at before, birds are things qwith feathers, and in dickinsons poem, hope is alike a bird because it can take us to a high and happy place.

4. AN EXTENDED METAPHOR IS….
A METAPHOR THAT IS DEVELOPED OVER SEVERAL LINES, AN ENTIRE POEM, OR THROUGHOUT THE TEXT **Sometimes the author comes right out and says it, and sometimes the author implies the comparison.

5. WHAT’S THE Point?
This literary device allows the author to really prove a point by making a larger comparison between two things or notions.

6. HOW DO I FIND ONE? Identify a metaphor Continue reading the text
Determine whether the text has more comparisons to the same metaphor

7. “Hope is the thing with feathers” by Emily dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune – without the words And never stops at all And sweetest is the gale that’s heard And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm
This poem comes right out and says what the metaphor is
Then, it goes through and uses words to show
“Hope is the thing with feathers” by Emily dickinson

8. “MOTHER TO SON” BY LANGSTON HUGHES Well, son, I'll tell you:
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
It's had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor—
Bare.
But all the time
I'se been a-climbin' on,
And reachin' landin's,
And turnin' corners,
And sometimes goin' in the dark
Where there ain't been no light.
So, boy, don't you turn back.
Don't you set down on the steps.
'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.
Don't you fall now—
For I'se still goin', honey,
I'se still climbin',
And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
Crystal stair at first raises suspicion
ID stair, splinters, boards, carpet (usually in a house)
Climbin’, landin, steps
Crystal stair repeated at the end emphasizes the metaphor and pushes the idea of the perfect life
“MOTHER TO SON”
BY LANGSTON HUGHES

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