What is an Analogy?

"The video will be describing an analogy:
What Is an Analogy?
An analogy is the comparison through which the ideas or things are compared to each other. Through Analogy, the things, which are different from each other, are compared. It aims to explain the ideas or things by doing a comparison. Metaphors and similes are used as tools to represent an analogy. Therefore, the analogy is more elaborate than simile and a metaphor.

Analogies have a specific structure that will indicate a certain relationship between the two things. Students do not need to fear analogies. The setup of the analogy will indicate that relationship. When students struggle with analogies, it is because the relationship is difficult to understand.

For example, imagine you're given this analogy:

Branch : tree :: arm : man
How do you even read that with so many colons? It must be a typo…but it's not! The colons are a part of the structure of an analogy. Instead of serving a grammatical purpose, the colons stand in for other words.

This is how that analogy would be verbalized:

Branch is to tree as arm is to man.
The single colons mean 'is to,' and the double colon means 'as.' The analogy has two pairs of words that are connected. Your job is to discover the relationship that connects them. In this case, a branch is a part of a tree, just like an arm is a part of a man.

There are many different types of analogies. The fundamental aspect of all of them is always the relationship between the paired words. "

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[DarkMatterThaFirst]

Metaphors, similes and explanations are to analogies what flour, eggs and sugar are to cake.

[warbaby]

Spring analogy:
Spring is to Easter as Joe is to Oyster.