Title: How To Extend Your Metaphor

What is a metaphor?
1. Comparing two things using ‘like’ or ‘as’.

2. Directly referring to something as being

something else for effect.

3. Using words that start with the same

sound close together for effect.

L.O. To understand what an extended metaphor is and how to analyse its effect.
Title: How To Extend Your Metaphor

What is a metaphor?
2. Directly referring to something as being
something else for effect.

Literal
Did you get it
right?

L.O. To understand what an extended metaphor is and how to analyse its effect.
Title: How To Extend Your Metaphor

Whilst we read the poem, think

about what feeling is being
described – this is the title of the
poem. Challenge:
Can you spot
Circle any words that show and label any
you what feeling it might be. language
techniques?

L.O. To understand what an extended metaphor is and how to analyse its effect.
Title: Hunger
This is Hunger. An animal
all fangs and eyes.
It cannot be distracted or deceived.
It is not satisfied with one meal.
It is not content
with a lunch or dinner.
Always threatens blood.
Roars like a lion, squeezes like a boa,
thinks like a person.

The specimen before you

was captured in India (outskirts of Bombay)
but it exists in a more or less savage state
in many other places.

Please stand back.

Title: How To Extend Your Metaphor
An extended metaphor is a metaphor that
continues throughout the whole piece of
writing. 1. What extended metaphor
is used in this poem?
• What is ‘Hunger’ compared
to all the way through the
poem? A vicious predator.
2. What is the effect of this?
• Why would the author do
this? To add emphasis to
the state of hunger.

L.O. To understand what an extended metaphor is and how to analyse its effect.
Title: How to Extend Your Metaphor
Write a stanza of poetry using an extended
metaphor, to describe one of the feelings listed
below. • love
• anxiety
• excitement
• Loneliness
• Anger
• sadness

L.O. To understand what an extended metaphor is and how to analyse its effect.
 Sadness
What if the rain keeps dropping?
What if the sky stays dark?
What if light is but a dream?
O misery, is this your work?