Analogy

Examples Help! What is the definition of Analogy?

How do you define Analogy? What is aN Analogy? The word derives from the Greek ana logon meaning “according to a ratio". The definition of Analogy is as follows:

 

 
English Grammar & Terminology Definition of Analogy - a poetic device

Definition: An Analogy is a likeness or similarity between things that are otherwise unlike.
Analogy is the comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship but different meaning. Analogies provide insights

Examples: Sleep and death - they share a lack of animation and a recumbent position.

Definition of Analogy - a poetic device

Examples of Analogy in Poems & Poetry
Poems with Analogy examples can be found by the most famous poets including Amy Lowell and Robert Frost.

  • Night Clouds by Amy Lowell - using the imagery of mares to create a picture of clouds on a moon lit night
    The white mares of the moon rush along the sky
    Beating their golden hoofs upon the glass Heavens;
    The white mares of the moon are all standing on their hind legs
    Pawing at the green porcelain doors of the remote Heaves.
    Fly, Mares!
    Strain your utmost.
    Scatter the milky dust of stars,
    Or the tiger sun will leap upon you and destroy you
    With one lick of his vermillion tongue.
  • "Huswifery" by Edward Taylor
    Make me Thy loom then, knit therein this twin;
    And make Thy holy spirit, Lord, wind quills;
    Then weave the web Thyself. The yarn is fine.
    Thine ordinances make my fulling mills.
    Then dye the same in heavenly colors choice,
    All pinked with varnished flowers of paradise
  • Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost

Examples of Analogy Poems
 

Examples Help! Use of Analogy in Poems & Poetry
Examples of Analogy can be found in many examples of the poem, poems or poetry. Famous poets use this figure of speech to convey and emphasize unusual and vivid images. The use of strong word association changes the mode of thought and adds variation, embellishment and adornment to literary works.

Examples Help - Figures of Speech - Analogy
In Figurative Language we use words in such a way that they differ somewhat from ordinary every-day speech and convey meanings in a more vivid and impressive manner. Figures, like Analogy make speech more effective, they beautify and emphasize it in Rhetoric which is the art of speaking and writing effectively. Figures of speech such as Analogy use word association to convey emotion and mood often in a non-literal sense.

Examples Help! Using Analogy

Figures of speech such as Analogy adds adornment, beautifies, colors, elegant variation, embellishment, embroidery, emphasis, exaggeration, exclamation, flourish, floweriness, irony, lushness and luxuriance to the English language. This page providing facts and info about Figures of Speech will help with the understanding of this subject.

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Analogy

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