analogies
Similarities drawn between
Analogies is the plural of analogy—a comparison highlighting similarities between things that are otherwise different.
The word often refers specifically to standardized test questions asking you to complete a relationship: I always struggled with the analogies section.
Drawing analogies helps explain unfamiliar concepts through familiar ones: He used sports analogies to explain business strategy.
Visual similarity or representation
- resemblanceLikeness between things
- correspondenceExchanged written communication
- parallelEquidistant at all points
- equivalenceState of being equal
correlation · similarity · affinity · congruity · similitude · homology · parity · counterpart
Conclusion reached through reasoning
- deductionConclusion from premises
- inductionFormal admission process
- logicScience of valid reasoning
- argumentReasoned case or dispute
extrapolation · syllogism · comparison · proportion · ratio · equivalence · generalization · abstraction
likeness
Visual similarity or representation
- resemblanceLikeness between things
- correspondenceExchanged written communication
- parallelEquidistant at all points
equivalence · correlation · similarity · affinity · congruity · similitude · homology · parity · counterpart · match
inference
Conclusion reached through reasoning
argument · extrapolation · syllogism · comparison · proportion · ratio · equivalence · generalization · abstraction · pattern
metaphor
Implied identity comparison
- allegorySymbolic tale with deeper meaning
- symbolismRepresenting concepts through images
- parableInstructive allegorical narrative
fable · allusion · imagery · personification · simile · trope · idiom · metonymy · synecdoche · hyperbole
example
Representative case shown
- instanceSingle occurrence of something
- illustrationPicture explaining something
- caseContainer or instance
demonstration · model · exemplar · specimen · sample · prototype · paradigm · archetype · template · showcase
- Ideationbrainstorming, mind mapping, idea generation, ideas, brain dump
- connectionslink, links, connect, connection, tie
- Comparison Termssimilarities, differences, comparisons, contrasts, pros
- thinking skillslogic, logical thinking, logical reasoning, reasoning, reason
- aptitude test topicsantonyms, synonyms, reading comprehension, vocabulary, logic puzzles
- descriptive languagedescriptive writing, vivid language, vivid detail, sensory language, sensory detail
analogiesdifferences
Ways things aren't alike
dissimilarities · contrasts · distinctions · discrepancies · disparities
- false analogiesIllogical likening of unlikes
analogize, analogical, analogizing, analogized, analogizes, analogically