Entry#5: Understand Extended Metaphor

Extended metaphor - A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a stanza.

Example:

Hope is the thing with feathers
that perches in the soul,
And sings the tune-without the words,
And never stops at all,

Significance - An extended metaphor, when written well, can be a powerful literary device, of course the meaning prolongs to life itself.