| 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. |
| Divided into five sections, tropes of extended metaphor, allusions to mythology, and internal rhyme thread the individual parts into one work. |
| 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. |
| Allegory in the sense of Quintilian as a trope, an extended metaphor, Wilson mentions only once. |
| The students connected an abstract noun with a concrete noun and developed an extended metaphor. |
| One can argue with the appositeness of this extended metaphor. |
