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Analogies: Understanding Relationships

This worksheet helps 7th-grade students practice identifying and creating analogies by understanding different types of relationships between words.

Grade 7 ELA GrammarLanguage and VocabularyLanguageAnalogies
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.7.5.b

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Analogies: Understanding Relationships

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Read each analogy carefully and determine the relationship between the first pair of words. Then, choose the word that best completes the second pair to maintain the same relationship.

1. Up is to Down as In is to:

a

Under

b

Out

c

Above

d

Through

2. Chef is to Kitchen as Doctor is to:

a

School

b

Office

c

Hospital

d

Store

3. Hot is to Cold as Day is to  .

4. Bird is to Nest as Bear is to  .

5. Tiny is to Small as Gigantic is to  .

6. For the analogy 'Finger is to Hand as Toe is to Foot', what type of relationship is being shown?

7. Explain the relationship in the analogy 'Light is to Dark as Joy is to Sorrow'.

Match each analogy on the left with its relationship type on the right.

8. Author : Book :: Composer : Symphony

 

a. Part to Whole

9. Happy : Sad :: Fast : Slow

 

b. Cause and Effect

10. Seed : Plant :: Egg : Bird

 

c. Synonym

11. Hungry : Eat :: Tired : Sleep

 

d. Antonym

12. Chapter : Book :: Page : Chapter

 

e. Worker and Product

13. Create an analogy that shows a 'tool to its use' relationship. Explain your reasoning.

14. Create an analogy that shows a 'characteristic' relationship. For example, 'Feather is to Light as Rock is to Heavy'. Explain your reasoning.