Extended metaphor

A comparison developed across several lines or throughout a text.

A comparison developed through several connected images or ideas.

Lady Capulet urges her to think about marriage, pointing to other young mothers and her own experience. She describes Paris through an extended metaphor of a beautiful book that needs a cover. Juliet would complete him through marriage and share his possessions.

A comparison developed across several lines or throughout a text. In “Tissue”, paper gradually becomes a way of understanding human life.

Follow the extended metaphor through the poem: explain how the climb develops from adventure into understanding and reassurance.

Parts (a) and (b): Explain what a technique achieves. Calling the rose-tree an extended metaphor is only the beginning; show how it makes envy seem self-defeating.

A comparison developed across several phrases or lines, presenting one thing in terms of another.

A comparison developed across several lines or throughout a text. Here, the tape measure becomes an extended metaphor for the bond between mother and child.

A comparison that presents one thing as another and develops it across several lines or throughout a text.

A metaphor developed across several lines or throughout a poem.

A comparison in which one thing is presented as another, sustained and developed across several lines or a whole poem.

Wordsworth develops an extended metaphor, a comparison sustained across the poem, in which love is water. At first, the speaker remembers “A fountain at my fond heart’s door,” (line 3). A fountain is visible, active and continuously flowing.

A comparison developed across several lines or throughout a text. In ‘Valentine’, the onion’s different qualities represent different experiences of love.

A comparison that describes something as something else and develops that comparison across several phrases or lines.

A comparison developed across several lines or throughout a text. In this poem, anger is cultivated like a tree.

A comparison that describes one thing as another and develops that comparison across several connected images or a sustained passage.

An image or comparison developed through several connected details across a passage or poem.

A metaphor developed through several connected details, sustaining a comparison beyond a single phrase.

A figurative comparison developed across several lines or a whole text.

A comparison developed through several related details across a passage or poem.

A metaphor developed across several lines or a whole poem.

A comparison developed across several lines or a whole text. In Envy, the flower growing on a tree becomes a way of understanding a person’s talent.

A comparison developed through several related images or across a substantial part of a text.

A metaphor developed through several connected details rather than a single comparison.

“Profane” means to treat something sacred disrespectfully. His religious extended metaphor makes physical attraction sound reverent, while offering a playful argument for a kiss: his lips can supposedly make amends for his hand's rough touch.

A comparison developed through several connected images or across several lines.

A comparison developed or returned to across several lines or sections of a text.

A comparison developed across several phrases or lines, presenting one thing through the qualities of another.

A metaphor sustained and developed through several connected details, such as presenting society as a body with veins, nerves and a brain.

A metaphor developed or returned to across several lines or sections of a text.

A comparison developed across several lines or sections of a text.

A comparison developed across several lines or throughout a text. Harper develops music as an image of poetry’s power to comfort and transform society.

A comparison developed across several details or a substantial section of a text.

An extended pattern of imagery that presents something through a particular comparison, such as society as a living body.

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AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702

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