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Parallel Structures: Analogies<\/h1>\n

Objective<\/h3>\n

The greater your vocabulary, the easier you’ll be able to discern analogies. These vocabulary lessons have explored many ways to understand words and thus improve your vocabulary. An overview of analogies makes a fine culmination of this process.<\/p>\n

Minding the Gap: Solving Analogies<\/p>\n

Analogies require a fine understanding of not only the many layers of a single word\u2019s meaning (its history, denotations and connotations), but also its relationship to other words (its antonyms, synonyms, and even category of meaning).<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start with a review of the language of analogies. They tend to be written as equations:<\/p>\n

HOMOPHONE: SYNONYM :: SOUND : MEANING<\/strong><\/p>\n

The above is read as \u201cHomophone is to synonym what sound is to meaning.\u201d As previously discussed, homophones are words that have the same sound, and synonyms are words that have the same meaning, so this analogy accurately establishes the relationship between the four words.<\/p>\n

Of course, the example above has the answer provided. If you had only been given the first half of the equation, you would have looked for an answer that established a similar relationship. Here is a list of some of the relationships that analogies can have.<\/p>\n