Top 12 Extended Metaphor Quotes
#1. What's this?" he inquired, none too pleasantly. "A circus?"
"No, Julius. It's the end of the circus."
"I see. And these are the clowns?"
Foaly's head poked through the doorway.
"Pardon me for interrupting your extended circus metaphor, but what the hell is that?
Eoin Colfer
#2. Only men would think of cutting themselves to determine who the packleader is. Idiots.
Christopher Paolini
#3. She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them. This only is the witchcraft I have used.
William Shakespeare
#4. Extended metaphor is like a carton of milk without an expiration date.
Jesse Helms
#5. The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.
Aristotle.
#6. Bright as does the morning star appear,
Out of the east with flaming locks bedight,
To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
Edmund Spenser
#7. In serious Victorian fiction, as in Shakespearian tragedy, melodrama normally functions as metaphor. The author finds a vivid equivalent for a reality too elaborate or too extended to be briefly depicted.
Ian Gregor
#8. If I can protect, I want to protect.
CLAMP
#11. Our economy isn't going to recover until the housing market finds its footing.
Mark Zandi
#12. In a sense, being a full-time writer is less fun because there's no office to go to anymore, there's no set routine, there's no schedule. It can be quite isolating.
Aravind Adiga
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