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===T. S. Eliot=== [[File:Alfred prufrock eliot sf.ogg|thumbnail|right|Audiobook of "[[The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock]]" by [[T. S. Eliot]]]] In the following passage from "[[The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock]]", [[T. S. Eliot]] provides an example of an extended metaphor: :The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes, :The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes :Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening, :Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains, :Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys, :Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap, :And seeing that it was a soft October night, :Curled once about the house, and fell asleep.<ref name=Pruf>{{cite web|last=Eliot|first=T.S.|title=1. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock|url=http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html|work=Prufrock and Other Observations|publisher=Bartleby.com|access-date=4 November 2012}}</ref> Qualities (grounds) that we associate with cats (vehicle), color, rubbing, muzzling, licking, slipping, leaping, curling, sleeping, are used to describe the fog (tenor).<ref name=Thornborrow />
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