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extended metaphor

[ ik-sten-did met-uh-fawr ]

noun

  1. a metaphor 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.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of extended metaphor1

First recorded in 1710–20

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Example Sentences

Allegory has been shown to have had a long history as an extended metaphor--a rhetorical figure.

Allegory in the sense of Quintilian as a trope, an extended metaphor, Wilson mentions only once.

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