Analogy Worksheets

An analogy is when we compare two things (ideas or things) that are seemingly different in many ways, but have some underlying common characteristic. Many times it displays a high level of skill in writing when they perfect analogy is set forth. Writers can often use analogies to explain complicated processes by relating them to simplistic processes or models. We have a wide range of analogy worksheets available. Click on the links below to be transported to these various analogy related worksheet categories. This skill is basically the active form of personal vocabulary. Analogies are used in everything from IQ tests to job entrance exams to gauge language ability. This wide array of worksheets will help your students explore and eventually master the use of analogies in their own written on spoken language. This takes a great deal of practice to perfect.


Connecting Individuals, Ideas, or Events - Students will start to flex their brain muscles to look for the interrelations between multiple variables.

Conveying Ideas with Words and Phrases - We start to learn about the use of effective language and how it can be very powerful.

Defining Categories for Words - This helps students begin to see how things are similar and yet different.

Explaining Similes and Metaphors - These are often confused with analogies, but the fact is they are much more subtle.

Inferring the Meaning Of Words and Phrases - This skill takes a great deal of practice and it is vital towards improving your ability to understand new vocabulary.

Literal versus Nonliteral Language - We explore this along with our analogies because when you examine this it can really help bolster your language.

Metaphors - These are much more poetic and melodic than your standard analogy.

Similes and Metaphors (Advanced) - This topic has slightly more complicate comparisons.

Sort Objects into Basic Categories - This is where we can start to identify similarities that we can make comparison with.

Sort Words into Categories - This simple skill has a huge impact on our ability to make a thoughtful analogy.

Understanding Relationships Between Words - Where is there crossover between your word and the one you trying to connect it with?

Word Relationships - This is a super handy collection of worksheets for this topic.


Analogy Worksheets To Print:

Doe It Make Sense? - Take in all of these different comparisons and see which one fits best.

Types of Them - How are the words related to each other? Choose one of the relationships provided and write it on the line.

How They Relate - Determine the relationship between the first set of words. Then fill in the blank with a word that creates the same relationship between the second pair of words.

Describing Relationships - Choose a word on the right that best expresses a relationship to the word on the left that is similar to that of the original pair.

Understanding What They Mean - To understand the analogy, first you need to figure out the relationship between the first pair of words. You can do this by making a sentence that relates the two words to one another. Write a sentence that explains the relationship between each pair of words.

Cap Them Off - Which choice best completes each thought?

Write Your Own - Find the relationship between the first set of words. Then fill in the blank with a set of words that have the same relationship.

Rewrite Them - Rewrite each analogy below so that it makes sense.

Whole to Part - For example: bee: hive :: ant : colony. The relationship expressed in a sentence looks like this: A bee is to a hive as an ant is to a colony. This analogy describes the relationship of a part to a whole.

How They Go Together - Identify the relationship that describes each situation.

Circle the Word - Complete each analogy by circling the correct word. Then explain why you chose each word.

Different Types - See if you can breakdown how those two things relate.

SAT Prep - These are commonly found on the language portion of the SAT exam.

Logical Thoughts - Rewrite each example by changing the last word so that it is correct and makes sense.

Last Practice Worksheet - We offer you another series of practice problems to get going with.


How Are Analogies Used in Writing?

Your basic word analogy is a very common tool used in a writer's toolbox. It can help writer's better explain a concept that would normal be a difficult task be itself. There are two very commonly used literary devices used when drawing up analogies in the narrative form. Similes form a comparison between two ideas or things. Often the comparisons that are drawn up by similes are bold or even a little outlandish. Similes almost always contain the words "as" or "like". An example of a simile: When James dropped the plate it crashed like a lightning strike. Metaphors also provide a comparison between two things in a direct form or by using descriptive words. Metaphors also do not use the words "as" or "like". An example of a metaphor: Steve chews like a cow. Writers will often employ the use of metaphors and similes to complete deep and cerebral bodies of work.


Many times I will come across some absolutely brilliant analogies that really show a level of higher thought. For example: The science test was so hard, it was like balancing an egg on your heard while riding a roller coaster. Other times I’ll come across analogies that will make me laugh so hard. For example: Man, George's career is blowing up like he is in an active mine field being weighted down by a thousand nickels. Then again, sometimes analogies can be both brilliant and funny. For example: Lawyers are like human sperm, only about one in twenty-million of them turn out to be an actual human being. Either way analogies can really help bring any work to life. For some writers it is there bread and butter.


What is the Difference Between Analogies, Metaphors, and Similes?

These are commonly used literary devices that we use to better explain relationships between various things. Each of these techniques is used for a different purpose and should be approached differently. Students will often confuse these three concepts. In some cases, they will recognize they recognize a comparison that does fit multiple concepts, but this definitely does not fit every single case. A metaphor pretentiously compares two things directly. A simile is a type of metaphor, so all similes are metaphors. Similes always use the words as and/or like. So if you spot a metaphor that uses one or both of those words, you know what you are working with. An analogy is when we spot a likeness, it is not meant to be concrete and absolute. Metaphors tend to be more tangible and more language driven. Analogies are almost always choice observations and are often much more intricate. In most cases there are presented in most cases as an explanation.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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