It is a description that puts a picture into your head while you are reading the said story or poem.
The socs jumped Ponyboy and Johnny. They held Ponyboy by the neck with his face underwater trying to drown him.
Hi , an extended metaphor is a metaphor that an author develops over the course of many lines or even an entire work of literature.Being more specific an extended metaphor refers to a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.
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