The man hitting the narrator on the head with an umbrella in sorrentino’s “there’s a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella” is an example of what literary device?
dramatic irony
dynamic character
unreliable narrator
extended metaphor

Extended metaphor

A metaphor is a literary device that compares two unlike things. An extended metaphor follows the same mechanism, but extends the comparison throughout a whole poem or a whole narrative. In this case, the author is using the man hitting a narrator on the head with an umbrella as a metaphor. However, it is an extended metaphor because it is maintained throughout the whole story.

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