2. Defined simply as “teaching,” something that is didactic is intended to teach, especially dealing with ethnic or moral lessons  Farenheit 451 is a didactic tale that warns against the notion of ignorance is bliss and the dehumanization of our society.  Gandhi's didactic speeches taught and inspired India’s population to be more tolerant of one another.  She was a didactic person and could teach anyone about anything.

3. A more pleasant way to convey a possibly unpleasant, offensive, or politically incorrect message. It disguises a harsh truth with a delicate veneer.  Earthly remains vs. corpse  Having to let someone go vs. having to fire someone  full figured vs. fat

4. A drawn out and continuing metaphor that is found frequently throughout a work. In poetry, an extended metaphor will usually be based on one common metaphor with other related metaphors applied to it.  Sometimes flowing lightly and gently/Moving along with ease/My life is like a river/Sometimes rough and rapid/Longing for some release/Trying to calm the storm/Waiting for the sun to shine overhead/Looking for the rainbow in the sky/My life is like a river (“Extended Metaphor Poem”)  "Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune--without the words, And never stops at all” –Emily Dickinson (Nordquist)  "I graduated from the University of Life. All right? I received a degree from the School of Hard Knocks. And our colors were black and blue, baby. I had office hours with the Dean of Bloody Noses. All right? I borrowed my class notes from Professor Knuckle Sandwich and his Teaching Assistant, Ms. Fat Lip Thon Nyun. That’s the kind of school I went to for real, okay?“ –Will Ferrell (Nordquist)

5. Speech or writing in which the words usually play off the imagination and are not meant to be taken literally. May include comparisons, imagery, irony, paradox, etc.  Paradox: “a familiar strangeness” (Hurston 48)  Similie: Her eyes shone like stars  Personification: the river wandered through the forest

6. A way of saying something in a manner not to be taken literally using figurative lagnuage.  all the world’s a stage  it’s raining cats and dogs  there were butterflies in her stomach

7.  "Extended Metaphor Poem." English Adventures With Mrs. Schulze. Web. 30 Sept. 2011..  Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006. Print.  Nordquist, Richard. "Extended Metaphor - Definition and Examples of Extended Metaphor - Glossary of Rhetorical Terms." Grammar and Composition - Homepage of About Grammar and Composition. Web. 30 Sept. 2011..