Extended+Metaphor


 * Definition:** a metaphor introduced and then further developed throughout the work.

Painting is an untamed bird. You're free to show how you feel without consequence. There's nothing holding you back. Your emotions fly wildly. (Megan Sutter, Laura Young, and Sarah Peterson) -It starts off saying what the metaphor is. However, it then goes on and explains about why that's the case with more descriptions. "Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune--without the words, And never stops at all,
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"And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm.

"I've heard it in the chillest land, And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me." (Emily Dickinson) -This shows how the topic advances. It says hope is a bird and how it's nice, but then it goes on to explain about how it does so much and asks for nothing in return.

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