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    Analogy: Ms Sulekha Varma Career Skills (Verbal)

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    Analogy is a comparison between two things that highlights their similarities. It allows understanding of one thing by examining its likeness to another. There are several types of analogy, including metaphor, simile, allegory, and parable. Analogies are used in fields like math, biology, and philosophy to demonstrate concepts. They are also commonly used on tests like the SAT through questions comparing different subjects. Analogy plays an important role in literature by allowing exploration of relationships between similar and dissimilar things.

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    Analogy is a comparison between two things that highlights their similarities. It allows understanding of one thing by examining its likeness to another. There are several types of analogy, including metaphor, simile, allegory, and parable. Analogies are used in fields like math, biology, and philosophy to demonstrate concepts. They are also commonly used on tests like the SAT through questions comparing different subjects. Analogy plays an important role in literature by allowing exploration of relationships between similar and dissimilar things.

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    Analogy is a comparison between two things that highlights their similarities. It allows understanding of one thing by examining its likeness to another. There are several types of analogy, including metaphor, simile, allegory, and parable. Analogies are used in fields like math, biology, and philosophy to demonstrate concepts. They are also commonly used on tests like the SAT through questions comparing different subjects. Analogy plays an important role in literature by allowing exploration of relationships between similar and dissimilar things.

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    Analogy: Ms Sulekha Varma Career Skills (Verbal)

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    Analogy is a comparison between two things that highlights their similarities. It allows understanding of one thing by examining its likeness to another. There are several types of analogy, including metaphor, simile, allegory, and parable. Analogies are used in fields like math, biology, and philosophy to demonstrate concepts. They are also commonly used on tests like the SAT through questions comparing different subjects. Analogy plays an important role in literature by allowing exploration of relationships between similar and dissimilar things.

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    Analogy

     Ms Sulekha Varma
     Career Skills (Verbal)
     Definition of Analogy
     Analogy is a comparison between two things. Analogies function to describe or explain
    one thing by examining its similarities with another thing. The two things may be very
    dissimilar and the analogy forces the reader or listener to understand the connection
    between them. On the other hand, the analogy could provide a comparison between two
    very similar things, one of which might be more obscure; the analogy provides a way
    for a reader or listener to understand the more obscure thing by picturing the more
    common thing.
    Types of Analogy

     As the definition of analogy includes all types of comparisons, the following list of literary devices all
    qualify as analogies:

     Metaphor: A metaphor compares two subjects without any connecting words such as “like” or “as.”
    Metaphors are considered a strong form of analogy as they assert that one thing is another.
     Simile: A simile is a comparison between two things using the connecting words “like” or “as.” Not
    quite as strong of a comparison as metaphor, simile still requires the reader to understand the
    similarities between the two things and make new cognitive links.
     Allegory: An allegory is a story in which the characters, images, and/or events function as symbols.
    These symbols can be interpreted to have deeper significance and may illustrate moral truths or a
    political or historical situation.
     Parable: Similar to allegory, though more condensed, a parable is a simple story used to illustrate an
    instructive lesson or principal.
     Exemplification: Exemplification is the relation between a sample and what it refers to. For example,
    if a sign at an arboretum said “oak” in front of an oak tree, that tree would be an exemplification of the
    label.
    Common Examples of Analogy

     Analogy is not only a literary term. Indeed, the concept of analogy is used in many
    different fields, from math to biology to philosophy. Analogy is an important part of
    high-level perception in humans; the ability to form and understand analogies requires
    high cognitive functioning.

     Analogies have been used as a part of the American SAT exam to test cognitive
    functioning. Here are some simple examples of analogy that one might have found on
    the SAT test:

     GREEN : COLOR :: ORCHID : FLOWER


     SCIENTIST : EINSTEIN :: MUSICIAN : MOZART
     HUMAN : FINGERNAIL :: TIGER : CLAW
     There are many other analogies that we can find in common speech. Here are some examples of simile,
    one of the main types of analogy:

     Mary had a little lamb / Her fleece was white as snow.


     As light as a feather
     As dead as a doornail
     As busy as a bee
     As quiet as a mouse
     As happy as a clam
     Sly like a fox
     You’re as sweet as sugar
     That would be as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack.
     “We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream” –
    Martin Luther King, Jr. “I have a dream” speech
    Significance of Analogy in Literature

     Analogy is very important in literature, and it can be found in its many forms in
    literature from every culture and era. Analogy helps readers and listeners explore
    relationships between like and unlike things, thereby expanding connective tissue
    between concepts. Greek philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle theorized about
    analogy, calling it a shared abstraction. The objects being compared shared a pattern,
    idea, philosophy, or effect, and the analogy helped clarify this mutual attribute. Authors
    use analogies in all types of literature for many reasons, such as to provide comparisons
    between like and unlike things, to create deeper significance in their works, and to help
    readers visualize characters and places.

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