Lesson 6: Exploration on analogy metaphor
Analogy is to use something to describe another thing. An analogy is comparison between two words according to the similarity of them. It is a mixed between metaphor and similes.
Metaphor
Metaphor is creating comparison between two different features/things that actually share one or more similarity. The subject is described as another one.
Example:"The streets were a furnace, the sun an executioner."(Cynthia Ozick, "Rosa")
Simile
A simile is use the term 'as' or 'like' to make a comparison between two different things.
Example:”The streets were a furnace, the sun an executioner."(Cynthia Ozick, "Rosa")
Type of analogy:
1) Logical analogies
Comparison between two things share similarity in the design, structure or function.
Example: Airplane and bird
2) Affective Analogies
Comparison between two things share similarity in the emotion or certain characteristic.
Example: Woman and flower; Soldier and zombie
We know the relationship between the fat guy and the verhicle, even without explaination
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