Analogy is a cognitive process of transferring information from a particular subject (the analogue or source) to another particular subject, and a linguistic expression corresponding to such a process. The word analogy can also refer to the relation between the source and the target themselves, which is often, though not necessarily, a similarity, as in the biological notion of analogy.
-Wikipedia
Analogy can be divided into two categories which are logical analogies and affective analogies.
There are two type of Analogies
-Metaphor
-Simile
A metaphor is an analogy between two objects or ideas, conveyed by the use of a word instead of another.
A simile is a figure of speech consisting of a comparison using like or as. Well-chosen similes can be used to enliven writing or as an alternative to description using adjectives.
Oxymoron is a phrase in which the parts are contradictory or incongruous in one of several ways. Often, at least one of the words in an oxymoron is not used literally or has multiple meanings, or there’s some shorthand being used, and the apparent self-contradiction arises from this.
-Wisegeek
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