Question

The man hitting the narrator on the head with an umbrella in Sorrentino’s “There’s a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella” is an example of what literary device?
dramatic irony
dynamic character
unreliable narrator
extended metaphor

Answer 1

Answer: Extended metaphor

A metaphor is a literary device that compares two unlike things. An extended metaphor follows the same mechanism, but extends the comparison throughout a whole poem or a whole narrative. In this case, the author is using the man hitting a narrator on the head with an umbrella as a metaphor. However, it is an extended metaphor because it is maintained throughout the whole story.

Answer 2

in Sorrentino’s “There’s a Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella” is an example of an EXTENDED METAPHOR