Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Compare and Contrast Ideas
This reading resource discusses the strategy of comparing and contrasting ideas. Students will learn definitions and explanations for similes, metaphors, and analogies. A list of guiding questions is provided to help students as they...
Quia
Quia: Analogies Jeopardy
Play a Jeopardy-type game to test your skill at understanding analogies or word relationships. The game can be played by one or two players.
Virtual Salt
Handbook of Rhetorical Devices: Analogy
Defines analogy. Also explains the reasoning behind the multiple levels of comparisons within an analogy. Includes examples and quotes from famous authors.
Stanford University
Medieval Theories of Analogy
Read about the history of the use of analogies, beginning in the Middle Ages. Discusses analogies in terms of logic, theology, and metaphysics. Very informative.
Read Works
Read Works: The Mountain
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a wedding written from the unique point of view of the little groom on the top of the cake. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Figurative Language Review
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson helps students understand figurative language.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: I Have a Metaphor
This lesson not only examines the message of Dr. King, but also the words themselves. This is a lesson in identifying the literary devices that he used in his "I Have a Dream" Speech. It will introduce the following literary devices:...
The English Teacher
The English Teacher: Writing Analogies
Analogies are useful when communicating ideas that a reader wouldn't otherwise understand. This tutorial explains how to use analogy in writing.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Context Clues and Analogies (English Ii Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn to find the meaning of words through analogy and other word relationships. L.9-10.5 Fig Lang/nuances
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Context Clues and Analogies (English Ii Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on using a combination of reference materials and analyzing context clues and analogies to improve your knowledge of new words.
Other
Book Units Teacher: Analogy Game [Pdf]
This is a printable game where students are given a sheet of analogies with sets of two pairs of words. The last word in the second pair is missing and students must study the relationship between the words in the first pair to determine...
TESL Journal
Activities for Esl Students: Analogies: Find the Appropriate Match
Twenty analogies providing three words and asking students to think of the fourth. Answers can be checked and compared to the suggestions provided.
TESL Journal
Activities for Esl Students: Word Relationships
Fifteen analogies for students to complete. Answers are available for students to check their work.
Other
Polynesian University: Academic Writer: Analogy
Describes different writing strategies to be used with analogies to help get a point across. Gives three good examples.
Other
Spelling police.com: Analogy
Informational site that provides the definition for and examples of analogy.
Quia
Quia: Tracy Boyd
An interactive Jeopardy game for one or two players where students complete analogies in order to win points. The more difficult the analogy, the more points can be earned.
Quia
Quia: Analogies
Complete fifteen sentence analogies by choosing the answer that best completes the word relationships. Submit answers when finished to see how many are correct.
Quia
Quia: Simile, Metaphor, or Personification?
Twenty sentence analogies for students to complete by choosing the word that correctly shows the relationships. Correct answers are given for any missed, and the score is tallied throughout the exercise.
Quia
Quia: Vocab/word Knowledge: Awesome Analogies!
A one or two-player Jeopardy style game to play while learning to identify word relationships. Students complete each questions by typing the correct word to complete each analogy. The game can be played alone or with an opponent.
Quia
Quia: Who Wants to Be an Analogy Word Master?
An interactive game where students read a pair of words and then choose another pair of words that show the same relationship. Students can complete fifteen analogies in order to win the game, and three hints are available if needed. If...
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Which Word: Middle School Analogies
Complete each of the ten analogies by choosing the word that matches the relationship between the first two words.
Quia
Quia: Analogies Jeopardy
A Jeopardy-style game to play while learning to identify word relationships with categories including Family, Places, Actions, Time, and Opposites. Students complete each question by typing the correct word to complete each analogy. The...
Vocabulary Spelling City
Vocabulary Spelling City: Play Match It Sentences Games
Complete ten analogy sentences by choosing the word that matches the relationship in each sentence.
TES Global
Blendspace: Analogies
A six-part learning module with links to videos, slides, images, and a website about analogies.