| The students connected an abstract noun with a concrete noun and developed an extended metaphor. |
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| So when John McCain made an extended metaphor comparing the Tea Party to Hobbits obsessed with defeating Mordor, Colbert was practically giddy with excitement at the prospect of extending this metaphor. |
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| Now that's what I call an extended metaphor. |
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| And he did so, typically, with an extended metaphor drawn from literature. |
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| Moving away from our extended metaphor to the perceived gulf separating archivists and librarians, it should be noted that there is no common foe other than both professions becoming irrelevant to the society at large. |
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| Divided into five sections, tropes of extended metaphor, allusions to mythology, and internal rhyme thread the individual parts into one work. |
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| One can argue with the appositeness of this extended metaphor. |
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| Ruskin articulated an extended metaphor of household and family, drawing on Plato and Xenophon to demonstrate the communal and sometimes sacrificial nature of true economics. |
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| Donne is considered a master of the metaphysical conceit, an extended metaphor that combines two vastly different ideas into a single idea, often using imagery. |
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