Analogy

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 * Definition:: **An analogy is a comparison in which similar aspects of two or more things are placed in parallel, usually to explain or clarify something.


 * Origin:: **From the Middle French //analogie.//

Definition taken from Oxford English Dictionary.


 * Examples ** from text: [[image:http://apps.nthfusion.com/images/analogy/analogy_pattern1.png width="336" height="224" align="right"]]

1) In the NPR 3 Minute Story "The Story Spinner" (written by Jocelyn Julian), the narrator describes her relationship with Nick through an analogy, as follows:

"It was like the tale of One Thousand and One Nights, only in reverse. He told his stories every week, and I pretended to like them so that our relationship would continue. Or maybe I was the Scheherazade in our story, spinning different ways to praise his writing so that he would want more. My deception was a matter of survival."

(In //One Thousand and One Nights//, Scheherazade's stories captivate her husband, the king, thus stopping him from killing her.)

2) In "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" (script by Joss Whedon), Dr. Horrible, played by Neil Patrick Harris, says to Penny, "You're treating a symptom and the disease rages on, consumes the human race. The fish rots from the head as they say. So my thinking is why not cut off the head?" Here, he makes two analogies: the first compares the homeless to a symptom and Penny's organization, the Caring Hands Homeless Shelter, to an ineffective treatment; the second compares the human race to fish, the homeless to the head, and getting rid of the homeless to cutting the head off of the fish.

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