2.  A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity without using the words like or as.

3.  It is raining cats and dogs.  Love is a fragile flower opening to the warmth of Spring.  He has the heart of a lion.  You are the sun in my sky.

4.  A metaphor that continues throughout a series of sentences, through a stanza or a poem, often by multiple comparisons of unlike objects or ideas. With the purpose of expanding or clarifying an idea.

5.  Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee -William Shakespeare

6.  Hope Is The Thing 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 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

7.  You can tell metaphors apart from extended metaphors by this:  Metaphors- ◦ You only have one/a few comparisons through out the poem ranging on different objects  Extended Metaphors- ◦ Many comparisons through out the poem all relating to the main theme

8.  What do the following metaphors compare: ◦ The inside of the car was a refrigerator. ◦ The teenage boy’s stomach was a bottomless pit. ◦ The homework was a breeze. ◦ Her dog was the sunshine of her life. ◦ Cindy was such a mule. We couldn’t get her to change her mind.

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