College Composition / Unit 15 CMP 0356 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Analogy
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The idea
Analogy compares two unlike subjects, one familiar and one not, to explain the unfamiliar one.
In practice
The writer stresses the ways the two are similar even though they differ in every other way, as when a pandemic investigation is compared to a robbery investigation.
Where people slip
An analogy explains; it does not prove. The two subjects can differ in exactly the way that matters.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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