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Read the passage:

I dwell in Possibility —
A fairer House than Prose –
More numerous of Windows –
Superior – for Doors –

What is the effect of the extended metaphor in the passage?

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The answer is "It sustains the image of the house"

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The metaphor is that possibility is a house 
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