Language Arts Grade Five

Unit Eleven, Lesson Four: Analogies

  1. band
  2. stand
  3. random
  4. ground
  5. sound
  6. ignore
  7. vine
  8. vivid
  9. visit
  10. vista
  1. panoramic
  2. view
  3. altitude
  4. scenic
  5. trail
  6. organic
  7. dioxide
  8. national
  9. forest
  10. crest
Analogies

The best analogy puzzles are those which have only one good answer. Of course, there are often many reasonable answers to an analogy. Consider this example: 


	Europe is to France as Africa is to ________.
Any country in Africa could complete this analogy (unless there is something about France and one other country in Africa which makes a comparison between these two countries obviously special).

It would be better to turn the parts of the analogy around like this: 


	France is to Europe as Libya is to ___________.
In this case the only logical answer is "Africa" since Libya is a country on the continent of Africa.

Analogy puzzles can be a lot of fun to solve. Here's an example: 


	Trona is to California as Austin is to __________.
A problem here is that there is an Austin in Nevada and an Austin in Texas (and probably a few others too). So, we might have to try a couple possible states before we get this one right!

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