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    Metaphors and similes are tools used to draw an analogy.

    Therefore, analogy is more


    extensive and elaborate than either a simile or a metaphor. Consider the following
    example:

    “Structure of an atom is like a solar system. Nucleus is the sun and electrons are the
    planets revolving around their sun.”

    Here an atomic structure is compared to a solar system by using “like”. Therefore, it


    is a simile.Metaphor is used to relate the nucleus to the sun and the electrons to the
    planets without using words “like” or “as’. Hence, similes and metaphors are
    employed to develop an analogy.

    Examples of Analogy from Everyday life


    We use analogy in our everyday conversation. Some common analogy examples are
    given below:

     Life is like a race. The one who keeps running wins the race and the one who
    stops to catch a breath loses.
     Just as a sword is the weapon of a warrior, a pen is the weapon of a writer.
     How a doctor diagnoses diseases is like how a detective investigates crimes.
     Just as a caterpillar comes out of its cocoon, so we must come out of our
    comfort zone.
     You are as annoying as nails on a chalkboard.

    Analogy Examples in Literature


    Below are a few examples of analogy in literature:

    Examples #1

    The given lines are from Amy Lowell’s poem “Night Clouds”.

    “The white mares of the moon rush along the sky


    Beating their golden hoofs upon the glass Heavens.”
    The poetess constructs the analogy between clouds and mares. She compares the
    movement of the white clouds in the sky at night with that of the white mares on the
    ground.

    Examples #2

    The lines below were taken from George Orwell’s narrative essay “A Hanging” where
    it exhibits an analogy between a prisoner and a fish.

    “They crowded very close about him, with their hands always on him in a careful,
    caressing grip, as though all the while feeling him to make sure he was there. It was
    like men handling a fish which is still alive and may jump back into the water.”

    The people are taking a prisoner to the gallows to be hanged. They are holding him
    firmly as if he were a fish which might slip and escape.

    Examples #3

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow uses analogy in the below lines taken from his poem
    “The Day Is Done”.

    “Read from some humbler poet,


    Whose songs gushed from his heart,
    As showers from the clouds of summer,
    Or tears from the eyelids start.”

    He relates his poems to the summer showers and tears from the eyes. He develops
    the similarity to show spontaneity of art when it directly comes out from the heart of
    an artist.

    Examples #4

    These lines are taken from Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”, Act II, Scene II.

    “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose


    By any other word would smell as sweet.
    So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called,”
    Juliet is indirectly saying that just like a rose that will always smell sweet by
    whichever name it is called; she will like Romeo even if he changes his name.

    Examples #5

    John Donne in his poem “The Flea” uses analogy of a flea to describe his love with
    his beloved.

    “This flea is you and I, and this


    Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is”

    In the quoted lines, he tells his darling that as a flea has sucked blood from both of
    them and their blood has mingled in its gut, so the flea has become their “wedding
    bed”.

    Function of Analogy in Literature


    Writers use analogies to link an unfamiliar or a new idea with common and familiar
    objects. It is easier for readers to comprehend a new idea, which may have been
    difficult for them to understand otherwise. Their comprehension of a new idea picks
    up the pace when they observe its similarity to something that is familiar to them. In
    addition, by employing this literary tool, writers catch the attention of their readers.
    Analogies help increase readers’ interest as analogies help them relate what they
    read to their life.

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