Would this be an analogy?

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"I am like a easily breakable, finely tuned Swiss watch, whereas most people are like durable "Timex" watches!"  Can this be called an Anology?

Julielai · Accepted Answer

A simile?

Davkett · Answer

I, too, would prefer 'simile'.  'Analogy' carries with it the notion of comparisons on a more extensive level.  The comparison here seems based on the single characteristic of durability.

Paco2004 · Answer

FYI

Analogy

The comparison of two things, which are alike in several respects, for the purpose of explaining or clarifying some unfamiliar or difficult idea or object by showing how the idea or object is similar to some familiar one. While simile and analogy often overlap, the simile is generally a more artistic likening, done briefly for effect and emphasis, while analogy serves the more practical purpose of explaining a thought process or a line of reasoning or the abstract in terms of the concrete, and may therefore be more extended: "You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables. ––Samuel Johnson"

Simile

A figure of speech which takes the form of a comparison between two unlike quantities for which a basis for comparison can be found, and which uses the words "like" or "as" in the comparison, as in this line from Ezra Pound’s "Fan-Piece, for Her Imperial Lord": "clear as frost on the grass-bade". In this line, a fan of white silk is being compared to frost on a blade of grass. Note the use of the word "as".

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Eimai_Anglos · Answer

QUOTE: "I am like a easily breakable ..."

should be "I am like AN easily breakable ..."

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