analogy
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Analogy time: Imagine your friend Buster sells you a bag of air.
From Slate • Oct. 3, 2023
Bishop Butler of the Analogy would walk for hours in his garden at Bristol on the darkest nights pondering the narrow line which divides the rational from the insane.
From The Guardian • May 6, 2020
Analogy: owning a nice car makes you happy, Having running water in your bath and kitchen makes you happy.
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2018
Enough preamble, here’s my Meltdown analogy: Paul’s Cool and Helpful Meltdown Analogy You want to rob a bank.
From The Verge • Jan. 6, 2018
Analogy, in political rhetoric, is the whiff of that burp.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
Vocabulary lists containing analogy
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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Vocabulary of the Common Core
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