Explain these CR terms please!

<p>Can you guys explain about these terms common in CR?
a)extended metaphor
b) A figurative expression</p>

<p>Hmm...I've always understood an extended metaphor to just be a metaphor (a comparison between two unlike things) that lasts throughout the text. (Like, they keep referring to it.) Aaand a figurative expression is just something that does not literally mean what it says.</p>

<p>ditto strandlib</p>

<p>This link offers some nice brief descriptions.
<a href="http://courses.nus.edu.sg/COURSE/ELLIBST/lsl01-tm.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://courses.nus.edu.sg/COURSE/ELLIBST/lsl01-tm.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>it wud be nice if sumone cud show examples.</p>

<p>Here's a link to literary terms with examples.<br>
<a href="http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/&lt;/a>
You can easily find more resources if you do a google search.</p>