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   In rec.arts.books.tolkien Christopher Kreuzer    
   wrote:   
   > stephen@nomail.com  wrote:   
      
   >    
      
   >> The question was not about what 'metaphor' means, but what   
   >> qualifies as an 'extended metaphor'.   You have not   
   >> provided a definition of 'extended metaphor'.   
      
   > I'd like to see a definition of this as well. Along with "extended   
   > parable", and when an allegory stops being an allegory. Maybe when it is   
   > an overextended metaphor? :-)   
      
   Apparently Potter Stewart's words apply to allegory as well.   
      "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material   
       I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description;   
       and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so.   
       But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in   
       this case is not that."   
      
   :)   
      
   Stephen   
      
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