Analogical Thinking 2

Hello everyone! How's your day been so far? I hope it's fine. This post, I'll be blogging about what I've learnt in my lesson for analogical thinking- similes and metaphors. 

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Similes are a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. For example, 'Amanda is as graceful as a swan'. For this one, I'm implying that Amanda, is graceful like a swan using '...as...as' to compare both things because they have a similarity. 

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One more example to give you a clearer picture of what simile is. 'Ben is as busy as a bee'. Bees are one of the busiest living thing because they work non stop to retrieve more honey. 

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Metaphors are a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity.
In metaphors, we is '...is...'
An example will be 'Claudia is a shining star in our class.' This suggests that Claudia is very famous in our class, directly saying she is a shining star to emphasize and make it more impactful. 

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The whole class was tested on similes and metaphors as the teacher wanted to check on our understanding. I would say that similes and metaphors are indeed very important in this language and it can be used to improve our English. 

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Next, our teacher told us to find 2 objects that have a similarity and we have to give 3 examples. What I thought of was 'Bird and Aeroplane' This 2 things can fly in the sky, thus they are both quite the same. 

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Next will be 'light and Sun' Both of this gives off light energy so that we can see clearly.

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Last example is 'Tree and House' this 2 have a similarity because both of them provides shelter, just that Tree provides shelter to insects and animals while house provides shelter to humans. 

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I have learned a lot from this lesson as it requires us to think hard, testing our creativity. 

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