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Analogies: Understanding Relationships

This Grade 8 ELA worksheet focuses on understanding and solving analogies, a key skill for vocabulary development and critical thinking.

Grade 8 ELA GrammarLanguage and VocabularyLanguageAnalogies
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.8.5.a

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ELAGrade 8AnalogiesVocabularyCritical Thinking
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Analogies: Understanding Relationships

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Read each analogy carefully. Determine the relationship between the first pair of words, then choose the word that best completes the second pair to establish the same relationship. Some sections may require you to explain the relationship.

1. Up : Down :: In :

a

Within

b

Out

c

Under

d

Into

2. Chef : Kitchen :: Doctor :

a

Patient

b

Hospital

c

Medicine

d

Stethoscope

3. Hot : Cold :: Wet :  

4. Artist : Painting :: Author :  

5. Fin : Fish :: Wing :  

6. Explain the relationship in the analogy: 'Tiny : Enormous :: Whisper : Shout'

7. What type of relationship is shown in the analogy: 'Hammer : Tool :: Apple : Fruit'?

Match each analogy starter with its correct completion.

8. Bark : Dog

 

a. Roar : Lion

9. Chapter : Book

 

b. Page : Chapter

10. Bright : Dim

 

c. Happy : Sad

11. Look at the image. If 'Justice : Scales', then '  :  '

Scales of Justice