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.

d) she is both terrified and excited by the idea of returning to school.

a) she takes one day at a time.

d) she felt like she was an object of ridicule.

d) she tells her daughter not to worry about it because things will get better.\

b) elnora needs money for books and out-of-town tuition. she will raise the money herself.