Understanding Literary Analogies Figurative Language Understanding Literary Analogies

What is an analogy? Dictionary.com a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based Two types: verbal and literary

Verbal Analogies A student is given one pair of related words and another word without its pair. The student must find a words that has the same relationship to the word as the first pair. For example: fire is to hot, as ice is to cold. Source: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/sampletests/verbalanalogies/

Literary Analogies Similar to metaphors and similes Shows how two different things are similar More complex than most metaphors and similes A writer points out shared characteristics, with the goal of showing that if two things are similar in some ways, they are similar in other ways as well. Source: http://www.copyblogger.com/metaphor-simile-and-analogy-what’s-the-difference/

Literary Analogy in “Raymond’s Run” Just before taking off in the race, Squeaky compares the running the race to a dream. It is extended and more complex than a simple simile or metaphor. It gives many details to fill out the comparison.

“Every time, just before I take off in a race, I always feel like I’m in a dream, the kind of dream you have when you’re sick with fever and feel all hot and weightless. I dream I’m flying over a sandy beach in the early morning sun, kissing the leaves of the trees as I fly by.

And there’s always the smell of apples, just like in the country when I was little and used to think I was a choo-choo train, running through the fields of corn and chugging up the hill to the orchard. And all the time I’m dreaming this, I get lighter and lighter until I’m flying over the beach again, getting blown through the sky like a feather that weighs nothing at all.”

Assignment Write an analogy to describe something you love to do. It should be at least two paragraphs long. Be sure to include descriptive details.