Analogy- Comparing two things with similar features. Sometimes it may be using a familiar object to compare to something not as familiar.
Here are some examples:
"glove is to hand as monitor is to computer" found at http://www.articlesbase.com/music-articles/analogy-examples-766372.html
"Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."(Don Marquis) found at http://grammar.about.com/od/ab/g/analogy.htm
Pupils are more like oysters than sausages. The job of teaching is not to stuff them and then seal them up, but to help them open and reveal the riches within. There are pearls in each of us, if only we knew how to cultivate them with ardor and persistence.(Sydney J. Harris, "What True Education Should Do," 1964) found at http://grammar.about.com/od/rhetoricstyle/f/qanalogy07.htm
Taking a test is like crossing the finish line in a track meet. It took long to prepare and was painful but your greatful when its over.
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Never were truer words spoken about tests. Especially tests where you write for about three straight hours, twice in one week.
ReplyDeleteFor the second to last analogy I think it should end like this "And after the pearl has been found you are fried in hot oil and fed to fat people." That wouldn't really go along with the message but at least it would be analogically correct.
ReplyDeleteI like the analogy examples that you gave. Analogies are always easy to come up with and to understand. Too bad they're not on standardized tests anymore, those were point I knew I could get ):
ReplyDeleteAaron, that is rough I am way sorry... thats like running a marathon haha
ReplyDeleteTroy, you could make that apply. AFter the pearl is found it just depends on what you use with the rest of it, are you going to waste it to fat people or find another way to use it... is there other ways to use it?
ReplyDelete... Every oyster is eaten eventually, but it's the pearl that matters. Kind of like your legacy.
ReplyDelete"The job of teaching is not to stuff them and then seal them up, but to help them open, and then consume their delicious innards."
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