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Whether you are young or old, this popular blog post will get you thinking! If you are a teacher or tutor, consider adding some analogy practice to your day or share it in a newsletter with parents.

Analogies provide a good way to practice critical thinking, but knowing the common analogy types will help you avoid just guessing the answer. Analogies focus on word relationships to explain two things by showing how they are alike. Analogies can help map familiar relationships with new information. There are numerous types of relationships, but the most common 10 analogy types are antonyms, synonyms, part/whole, cause/effect, tool/action, category/example, intensity, characteristics, pairs, and object/user.

The benefits of understanding analogies are developing flexible thinking skills, enjoying the powerful nuances of literature, and excelling at job interviews and homework help. Below are 10 common analogy types and examples.

Analogy Types and Examples

Antonym - hot : cold :: wet : dry

Synonym - nice : kind :: mean : bully

Part/Whole - leaf : tree :: petal : flower

Cause/Effect - stove : burn :: rain : flood

Tool/Action - keyboard : type :: phone : call

Category/Example - clothes : shirt :: silverware : spoon

Intensity - freezing : cool :: boiling : warm

Characteristic - fish : water :: bird : air

Pairs - salt : pepper :: peanut butter : jelly

Object/User - food : chef :: pencil : writer

Start young

Analogy practice can start at a young age when you teach opposites. Hot : cold :: happy : sad. You read that aloud as “hot is to cold as happy is to sad.” Or when you play a matching game with like colors or even like relationships (capital letters to match with lowercase letters or adult animals to baby animals). To take it a step further, you can ask the child to come up with another pair for that analogy type.

One tip to remember is that the word order expressed in the first pair must be expressed in the same order in the second pair.

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Here’s a harder antonym analogy to complete...

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