ANALOGY

• Analogy


  A comparison of two things to show their similarities or relationships
• Analogy


  • Hungary is to eat as thirsty is to drink
• Cause-and-effect relationship


  The first set has a cause (hungry) and an effect (eat), the second set also has a cause (thirsty) and an effect (drink)
• Types of analogy


  • Synonym
  • Antonym
  • Part and whole
  • Characteristics
  • Function
  • Cause and effect
• Synonym


  Words possessing the same meaning
• Synonym analogy


  • Happy is to joyful as pretty is to beautiful
• Antonym


  Words opposite to each other in terms of meaning
• Antonym analogy


  • Happy is to sad as beautiful is to awful
• Part and whole


  Several objects comprise or make up a group
• Part and whole analogy

  • Keypad is to mobile phone as keyboard is to computer
• Characteristics


  Describing items by stating the item and its characteristics
• Characteristics analogy


  • Chili pepper is to spicy as candy is to sweet
• Function


  Explaining the use of an object
• Function analogy


  • Alcohol is to sanitize as broom is to sweep
• Cause and effect


  Showing cause and effect relationship
• Cause and effect analogy

  • War is to destruction as trash is to pollution
• An analogy can be used as an argument, but it does not prove anything; rather, it suggests that there may be some truth or value in what it compares.
• Analogy is the use of similarities between two things to explain one thing by reference to another.
• The purpose of analogies is to make something unfamiliar more familiar so that we understand it better.
• Analogies are often used to explain complex ideas by comparing them with something more familiar.
• The purpose of analogies is to make complex ideas more understandable by comparing them with familiar concepts.
• Analogies can also be used to clarify abstract concepts or to illustrate relationships between seemingly unrelated objects.
• Analogies are also used in science to describe complex phenomena using simpler examples from everyday life.
• They allow us to see relationships between different objects or ideas.