Quia
Quia: Analogy Battleship
This game will increase the player's understanding of different types of analogies. It has three difficulty levels.
Quia
Quia: Accuracy & Precision
In this self-scoring 15 question analogy practice quiz, students select to correct word to complete the analogy.
Quia
Quia: Have Fun: My Quia Activities and Quizzes
Have Fun is a collection of links to Quia games, activities, and quizzes covering a variety of language arts topics, such as analogies, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, sequencing, categorizing, compound words, grammar, sentences, and...
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.
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
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Using Other Supporting Materials
This lesson focuses on other materials used to support your speech including analogies, definitions, and a variety of visual aids. SL.11-12.5 Audio Visuals
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Context Clues and Analogies (English Ii Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on strategies for using context clues and analogies to determine the meaning of words, sentences, and paragraphs.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Types of Evidence
It can be useful to separate and identify different types of evidence used in an argument to support a conclusion. There are many ways to support a conclusion; this article will walk through some of the most common ones that you may see...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Principles and Analogies Quick Guide
Analogy questions ask you to identify a situation that is analogous to the one described in the passage. Principle questions ask you to identify the principle that is at work. This guide offers tips on how to recognize and respond to...
Fun Trivia
Fun Trivia: As Stubborn as a Mule
This 10-question game requires students to select an animal to complete a saying. Students are directed to double click their answer which brings up the correct answer and an explanation of the saying.
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.
TES Global
Blendspace: Analogies
A six-part learning module with links to videos, slides, images, and a website about analogies.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Mind Joggers
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a mixture of mind joggers and analogies.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Analogies
[Free Registration/Login Required] I created this presentation so that at the end of the presentation there are three analogies given and the teacher or students could discuss, or the teacher could then at this time have students make up...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Daily Vocabulary Warm Ups Analogies
[Free Registration/Login Required] Let this brief warm up activity get your students going with analogies.
Curated OER
Clip Art by Phillip Martin: Analogies
A clipart illustration by Phillip Martin titled "Analogies."