Both Uses of
analogy
in
The Age of Innocence
- The analogy was well meant, but did not altogether please him.†
Chpt 9 *analogy = a comparison of different things to point to a shared characteristic
- "It's to show me," he thought, "what would happen to ME—" and a deathly sense of the superiority of implication and analogy over direct action, and of silence over rash words, closed in on him like the doors of the family vault.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
a comparison of different things to point to a shared characteristic
Analogies are typically used to explain something unfamiliar by comparing it to something that is simpler or more familiar. They are also used in argument to suggest that what is true for one situation is also true in the other.