Please Help! Answer the following analogy questions:

actor : theater as

teacher : children

artist : studio

spoon : scoop

starch : bread

feed : pet as

nurture : child

misbehave : punishment

befriend : enemy

teach : school

rabbit : burrow as

cottage : dwelling

human : house

filly : mare

trumpet : musician

Did you get the right answers? (1,b; 2,a; 3,b) Perhaps you noticed that you need to understand all the words in order to figure out the relationships.

A completed analogy is written thus:

rabbit : burrow :: human : house

The double colon in the center is read "as". The sample analogy sentence should be read, "Rabbit is to burrow as human is to house."

Now, try your hand at making up analogies. Write one analogy for each type of analogy listed below:

cause to effect

part to whole

word to antonym

word to synonym

object to characteristic

time sequence

spatial order