Explain the difference between an analogy, metaphor, and simile?

A simile compares one thing to another. "She sat there like a bump on a log. " The "like a" is the operative phrase."He is built like a tank.

" Same thing. A metaphor is more of a figure of speech."A blanket of snow" is an example. It changes the meanings of words around.

"A stream of tears coming down her face." An analogy shows parallel similarities between two seemingly different things. My favorite is from the Simpsons.

"Ned Flanders: The Lord has drowned the wicked and spared the righteous. Maude Flanders: Isn't that Homer Simpson? Ned Flanders: Huh, looks like Heaven is easier to get into than Arizona State.

" Heaven and Arizona State are obviously different. But it shows a parallel that in this situation, they are both extremely easy to get into. "Computers of the future are the horses of the past.

Both moved society forward." Hope this helps.

An analogy can be a spoken or textual comparison between two words (or sets of words) to highlight some form of semantic similarity between them. Such analogies can be used to strengthen political and philosophical arguments, even when the semantic similarity is weak or non-existent (if crafted carefully for the audience). Analogies are sometimes used to persuade those that cannot detect the flawed or non-existent arguments.

The metaphor, according to I. A. Richards in The Philosophy of Rhetoric (1936), consists of two parts: the tenor and vehicle.

The tenor is the subject to which attributes are ascribed. The vehicle is the subject from which the attributes are borrowed. Other writers employ the general terms ground and figure to denote what Richards identifies as the tenor and vehicle.

Consider the All the world's a stage monologue from As You Like It: All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; — (William Shakespeare, As You Like It, 2/7) In this example, "the world" is compared to a stage, the aim being to describe the world by taking well-known attributes from the stage. In this case, "the world" is the tenor and "a stage" is the vehicle. "Men and women" are a secondary tenor and "players" is the vehicle for this secondary tenor.

A simile is a figure of speech comparing two unlike things, often introduced with the word "like" or "as".1 Even though similes and metaphors are both forms of comparison, similes allow the two ideas to remain distinct in spite of their similarities, whereas metaphors seek to equate two ideas despite their differences. For instance, a simile that compares a person with a bullet would go as follows: "John was a record-setting runner and as fast as a speeding bullet. " A metaphor might read something like, "John was a record-setting runner.

That speeding bullet could zip past you without you even knowing he was there.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.