How are analogy and allegory distinct?
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The umbrella shielded against the precipitous rain
Still definitional. The point of umbrellas is to shield/protect from the weather. A standard construction is: "Umbrellas shield against rain," or "The umbrella protects you from rain," or "An umbrella keeps you dry when the weather is wet."
All the types of writing being discussed are about unrelated things where a common aspect is brought out. So "Faith is our umbrella" implies that belief in something (God/gods/karma/goodwill) acts as a shield against bad things in the same way an umbrella shields against rain. "She's stacked like bricks" implies she is visually pleasing and 'well built' in the same way bricks are stacked to be both solidly built and visually pleasing. A defintional description would be, "She has the body of a beauty queen."
Technical writing is not supposed to use metaphors, similes, allegories or analogies except in very specific situations where the technical details must be further explained. Creative and descriptive writing may use all manner of devices to build vivid imagery.
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By way of right?
What pithy phrase might embody allegory in the same way?
wrote last edited by [email protected]The poster who mentioned Animal Farm got allegory pretty well.
Also, I kind of overdid it. Analogies really just show synonymous relationships. That they can help someone understand a relationship is superfluous.
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I feel like you're posting your homework questions on here
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I feel like you're posting your homework questions on here
wrote last edited by [email protected]I know you haven't done yours if you thought and verbalized that
