How to Use Analogies for More Powerful Writing

By drawing an analogy between two objects or processes you throw fresh light on both.

If you draw out the parallel elements in seemingly different things you can create analogies and write powerful essays.

Such parallels add depth to your writing and help your readers understand your ideas much more easily.

By drawing an analogy between two objects or processes you throw fresh light on both. You thus create a new angle of evaluation that did not exist before.

For example, one can argue that there are interesting parallels between the problems that a gourmet coffee business and a freelance writer face.

In both cases, increasing the number of clients and business volume brings with itself a QUALITY CONTROL problem, which may in turn damage the value of the product itself.

Imagine a writer, who makes a name for herself as a political commentator, starts writing crime novels… this might be okay. The late PBS journalist Jim Lehrer did that successfully for years without diluting the image of his “main brand” of political reporting and commentary.

This would be analogous to a gourmet coffee shop serving tea besides coffee. Different products, but not that terribly apart.

Imagine though the same writer also getting into writing celebrity gossip and obituaries? Wouldn’t you have question marks in your mind about…

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