"extended" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Described by Kartodikromo as an extended simile, Student Hidjo has been noted as depicting a new Indonesian youth culture which has adopted Western cultural and lingual facets.
- Kartodikromo described it as an extended simile.
- Take, for example, what he does with Homer's extended similes - the most striking of this translation's achievements.
- Arnold ends with an extended simile of a Tyrian merchant seaman who flees from the irruption of Greek competitors to seek a new world in Iberia.
- He notes that the first quatrain is an extended simile of a patient with a fever, keeping himself ill with things he doesn't really like.
- The epithets show Homer working with his traditional material, but the extended similes bring vivid, firsthand experience into the poem.
- Daedalus' appearance in Homer is in an extended simile, "plainly not Homer's invention," Robin Lane Fox observes: "he is a point of comparison and so he belongs in stories which Homer's audience already recognized."
- He retained the basic story-line, but felt free to cut, amplify or add to its incidents, to replace extended similes with local counterparts and to omit most of Homer's ever-recurring compound epithets.
- Cydonians are mentioned in book 12 of the Aeneid, where their excellent bow skills are used in an extended Virgilian simile describing the Fury's descent to Juturna.
- Hilton Landry notes that the poem is an extended simile with metaphors in each branch of the simile; he also called it the "simplest and sweetest" of the group.
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