An analogy is a process that establishes a similarity relationship between different elements that share some common characteristic.
This resource is widely used in fields such as linguistics, philosophy, law or literature.
In literature, there are rhetorical or literary figures, such as simile, metaphor and allegory, that use analogy, through the relationship of concepts that can be real or abstract.
Analogies in similes
The simile or comparison is a type of analogy that is characterized by establishing an explicit relationship of similarity between the elements that compose it.
1. The old age it’s like him winter of the life.
2. He spoke in clueas in a riddle.
3. I was wrathfulas a volcano.
4. The glasses they’re like Canes for the view.
5. He took came as if water.
6. Him loves booksit’s like a Library mouse.
7. The NBA it’s like the UEFA of basketball.
8. Ship it’s like the sea plane It is air.
9. The green indicates safety, like red indicates danger.
10. A mayor it’s like him president from a town.
11. A verse of the Bible is like the paragraph of a book.
12. A hat it’s like a glove for the head.
13. Each project new was like a son for her.
14. Go to job it was like a nightmare.
15. Hair golden As the sun.
16. You I cried as a river.
17. He slept as a baby.
18. Tea love like me life.
19. The meteorite passed like a fire bird.
twenty. They they eat like beasts.
21. I am luckyI live like one queen.
22. The baby was wrapped as a Tamale.
Analogies in metaphors
The metaphor is a literary figure that relates two concepts by similarity or difference, although said relationship is not literal.
23. The Mister is my Shepherd
24. I it rains the proposals of work
25. It’s time to settle and settle down
26. “cold As the wind, dangerous As the sea”.
27. The pilots they are ours eyes in the air.
28. Your hair it was one jungle inhospitable
29. Listening to that song made him sad; she was a pang in the heart.
30. Any news shudderedhad a character of glass.
31. She was the star of the night, the better dancer.
32. Your words were cutting.
33. I am in the flower of the life.
3. 4. Complied fifteen springs.
35. I will stay quietI am a grave.
36. My heart turned on! light bulbI already have the idea!
37. Looks that they kill.
38. Your laughter was music for my ears.
39. That one money is water falling from the sky.
40. I sit in the cloudsI’m happy.
41. She is always there distractedin the moon.
42. Margaret Thatcher was stricthad iron hand.
43. Everyone thinks he is a gentle lambbut in reality it is cruel.
44. You have to let go of that one armor and express your feelings.
45. My grandmother was a sun.
46. The life it’s a carnival.
47. This came it’s a nectar of gods
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Analogies in allegories
Allegory is a type of analogy that uses figurative meaning to represent abstract ideas. It is a kind of extended metaphor that continues throughout a narrative text.
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Life as a journey towards redemption: The Divine Comedy is a 16th century poem written by Dante Alighieri. It tells the journey of Dante (the protagonist) towards hell, purgatory and heaven, where he reunites with his beloved.
There an analogy is made between the journey to these three divine instances and a journey of self-discovery in which the protagonist knows the desperation of sin, the hope of purification and redemption.
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Poetry personified: In the verses of “La Poesía”, by Eugenio Montejo, an analogy is made between poetry and a human being who visits us and gives us a beautiful detail.
Poetry crosses the earth alone,
support your voice in the pain of the world
and asks for nothing
not even words.
He arrives from afar and without time, he never warns;
He has the key to the door.
Entering always stop to watch us.
Then he opens his hand and gives us
a flower or a pebble, something secret,
but so intense that the heart beats
too fast And we woke up.
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Eros and psyche and trust in love: The myth of Eros (who personifies love) and Psyche (the soul) is a story written in the 2nd century AD by Apuleius. Although they both loved each other, Psyche was forbidden to see the face of her husband. By defying the gods and looking at him, she was sentenced to a series of punishments. It is an allegory that relates “not seeing” with the trust that must exist in a loving relationship. It is also an analogy of the union of feeling (Eros) with reason (Psyche).
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The dry leaf and old age: The poem “Hoja seca” by the Spanish poet Juan Nicasio Gallego is an analogy between a withered leaf that heads towards an uncertain destiny (death) and old age.
dry and lonely leaf
that I saw so fresh yesterday,
where dust cover
are you going to stop? -Don’t know.
Far from the native bouquet
the cruel wind drags me
from the valley to the hill,
from the sandy area to the orchard.
I go where the wind takes me
resigned to know
that neither sighs nor prayers
They must temper their haughtiness.
Daughter of a poor mastic,
I go where they go too
the presumption of the rose,
the pride of the laurel.
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Life as a game chess: In this fragment of Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes, the chess pieces are related to the roles that we human beings assume. At the end of the game, all the pieces have the same destination (go into a bag), just as a common end awaits all people: death.
[…] Brave comparison! -said Sancho-, although not so new that I have not heard it many and diverse times, like that of the game of chess, that, while the game lasts, each piece has its particular job; and, when the game is over, they all mix, gather and shuffle, and find them in a bag, which is like finding life in the grave. […]
See Allegory.
Cause-effect analogies
53. The oxygen it’s iron rustywhat the infection it is to the fever.
54. The love brings peaceAs the hate brings war.
Analogies of the part for the whole
55. The helmet it is to the armoras capital that column.
56. A soldier it is to armyas a pawn it is to chess.
Analogies by synonymy
57. Beautiful that beautifulwhich copious that abundant.
58. City that cityas jungle that jungle.
Analogies by antonymy
59. Weak that strongwhich coward that brave.
60. She was llight and darknessas the night and day.
Analogies by product
61. Musician that music sheetas potter that vessel.
62. A apothecary that drugwhat a worker that building.
Analogies by characteristic
63. The date that sweet as the chilli that spicy.
64. The tea what is to flavorAs the coffee that scent.
Analogies for reciprocity
65. Student that teacherwhich grandson that grandfather.
66. One hive it is at beesas a anthill it is at ants.
Sequence analogies
67. September that Augustas evening that late.
68. The puppies are to the dogsLike the you drink are to the humans.
Analogies by location
69. The motorcycle it is to the highwayas a rocket to the space.
70. Dolphin that seaas camel that desert.
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