Name: ______________________________ Date: _____________________

Circling Analogies
Analogy Definition

An analogy shows comparison between things that have similar features,

often used to help explain a principle or idea.
Example
apple : tree :: milk : cow

Direction: Circle the word that best completes each analogy.

1. hairdresser is to client as doctor is to patient / medicine / customer

2. courage is to adventurer as fear is to bravery / explorer / coward

3. land is to dirt as ocean is to rich / finger / water

4. perplex is to confuse as irritate is to happy / annoy / mad

5. desert is to sun as pasture is to cats / fish / sheep

6. astronomer is to telescope as barber is to saw / scissors / pen

7. spoon is to feed as spade is to dig / scoop / carve

8. power is to watt as mass is to liter / kilogram / mile

9. lion is to lioness as horse is to mare / drone / swan

10. blow is to blew as find is to forgot / froze / found

11. flash is to camera as mouse is to rat / computer / dessert

12. ribbon is to present as icing is to cake / cut / typewriter

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Circling Analogies
Answer Key
Direction: Circle the word that best completes each analogy.

1. hairdresser is to client as doctor is to patient

2. courage is to adventurer as fear is to coward

3. land is to dirt as ocean is to water

4. perplex is to confuse as irritate is to annoy

5. desert is to sun as pasture is to sheep

6. astronomer is to telescope as barber is to scissors

7. spoon is to feed as spade is to dig

8. power is to watt as mass is to kilogram

9. lion is to lioness as horse is to mare

10. blow is to blew as find is to found

11. flash is to camera as mouse is to computer

12. ribbon is to present as icing is to cake

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