Analogies

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Analogies

• Helpful Hints

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What you need to know

• Analogy is just a fancy word for a word
  relationship.
• It is basically a word puzzle and the closest
  thing you can get to math in an English class.
• Analogies involve critical THINKINGand you know
  that I want you to think. ?

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Types of Analogies

• Synonyms
• Antonyms
• Worker and Tool Used
• Tool and Object it is Used Upon
• Worker and Object s/he creates
• Cause and Effect

• End Terminate
• Artificial Real
• Photographer Camera
• Scissors Paper
• Poet Poem
• Negligence Accident

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Types of Analogies

• Effect and Cause
• Material Used and End Product
• Function of a Tool
• Part to Whole
• Person and What He Looks For
• Person and What He Avoids

• Tsunami Earthquake
• Lumber House
• Saw Cut
• Leaf Tree
• Mineralogist Ore
• Student Failure

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Types of Analogies

• Masculine and Feminine
• Age
• Person and Closely Related Adjective
• Person and Least Related Adjective
• Symbol and What it Stands For

• Host Hostess
• Infant Adolescent
• Commander Competent
• Commander Coward
• Rose Love

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Types of Analogies

• Mathematical Relationship
• Measurement
• Classification and Type
• Degree of Intensity

• Seven Forty-nine
• Mile Distance
• Dog Greyhound
• Cold Pneumonia

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Tip 1

• Answer choices are often determined by word
  choice.
• CONCRETEare both words concrete items? Ex Tile
  Roof
• ABSTRACTare both words abstract items? Ex
  Ethics Integrity
• COMBINATIONif there is a combination make sure
  they are in the same order.

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Tip 2

• Always determine the relationship between the
  first two words before looking at the answer
  choices. This will help you from incorrectly
  choosing decoy choices.

• Ex Teacher Staff
• This analogy is part to whole. A teacher is a
  part of a staff. You now want to forget the
  words and look for the correct relationship in
  the answer choices.
• Answer choices Paper Pencil, Roll Roster,
  Absent Present, Iris Eye, Graduate Detain.

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Tip 3

• Use parts of speech as a guidepost. If you have
  and adjective followed by a noun, look for that
  same pattern in the choices.
• Make sure that you dont reverse the patternit
  is a common trick that you will find to confuse
  you.

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Tip 4

• What if more than one answer seems to work? Look
  for something else to narrow it down.
• If the sample uses the occupation of a doctor and
  the choices of entrepreneur, teacher, and
  plumber.
• Which would be the most fitting match?

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Tip 5

• What if you dont know the words? Dont worry.
  Look for prefixes and suffixes that can help you
  out. Try to figure out the relationship and make
  an educated guess.

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Tip 6

• Make sure you are looking at things in the same
  order. If you have a cause and effect in the
  original sample, dont be fooled by an answer
  that is formatted in the effect and cause pattern.