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Analogies

Association Game

• Find is to lose as construct is to ____________

• Leaf is to tree, as petal is to _____________

• Foot is to shoe, as hand is to _____________

• Fish is to fin, as bird is to _____________

Definition: Analogy

• a comparison between two concepts

• Parallels are drawn between them to explain the unfamiliar idea

Analogy

Simile

Metaphor

• Type of argument

• More complicated and lengthy

• Points out similarities between two things

• Comparison of two things

• Uses words ‘like’ or ‘as’

Ex. He is as hungry

as a horse.

• Directly states the comparison

Ex. Time is a thief.

•Figure of speech

•Type of analogy

Jodi Picoult– My Sister’s Keeper

• “At the beginning of this hearing, Mr. Alexander, you said that none of us is obligated to go into a fire and save someone else from a burning building. But that all changes if you're a parent and the person in that burning building is your child. If that's the case, not only would everyone understand if you ran in to get your child—they'd practically expect it of you […] In my life, though, that building was on fire, one of my children was in it— and the only opportunity to save her was to send in my other child, because she was the only one who knew the way.” (684-685)

Explanation

● burning building = threat of death● a mother will do anything for her child● running into a burning building is risking own life

for that of another● knowing the route parallels with having the

means to save that in threat of peril

Effect/Impact

• Increases understanding, by connecting to a situation that is more relatable

• Contributes to theme of loss

• Plot development: will Sara’s defense impact the juries' ruling

Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet

“ 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 call’d, …”

(II.ii.43-45)

“What does a name mean? The thing we call a rose would smell just as sweet if we called it by any other name. Romeo would be just as perfect even if he wasn’t called Romeo.”

"Romeo and Juliet." SparkNotes. SparkNotes, n.d. Web. 07 Feb. 2014.

• A rose would smell just as sweet, even if it had a different name

• Compares her undying love for Romeo to the everlasting sweet smellof a rose

Explanation

• Does not state comparison outright

• Describes each scenario separately

• Points out the similarities

Why is it an analogy?

• Since it describes each scenario separately…

• Reader can think to figure out connection

• More interactive

Effect/Impact on Reader

John Green – Looking for Alaska

• "You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."(p.26)

Explanation

• The labyrinth represents the present• Trapped by the decisions we make, as we

struggle to get out of it• Outside of the labyrinth we see happiness, or

the future, we always imagine it to be better than the present

Effect/Impact

• Gives an abstract concept a concrete shape = understanding

• Character/Relationship development between Alaska & Miles

• Plot Development: Foreshadowingconsequence of Alaska’s discontent with her life

Robert Frost – The Road Not Taken

“ … Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.”

Explanation

• Describing a forest with an intersection; chooses the path less traveled by

• Leader or follower?

Why is it an analogy?

• Comparison between the intersection in the woods and the choices in life

• Does not say it outright – readers make the connection for themselves

Effect/Impact on Reader

• Reader can think to figure out connection

• More interactive

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Where, when, how?

• Clarify an unfamiliar concept, feeling, or situation by using a simple comparison

• Helps the reader better understand and relate to said concept

• Many analogies are used in everyday speech (i.e. Idioms)

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