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Comparison of two different things, usually made to illustrate or explain complex or unfamiliar ideas. An analogy illustrates the similarity between two different things, for example making an analogy between a person's face and a mask suggests that the face seems artificial or hides something.

An analogy does not have to hold true in all senses, for example if we describe a town as ‘twinned’ with another, we use the analogy of family relationships in order to imply that there is a relationship of sameness and friendliness between the towns. In this sense the analogy holds true. However, the two towns do not share parents and did not necessarily originate at the same time; here the analogy fails.

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