In Literature and Language
- Analog, an object, concept or situation which in some way resembles a different situation:
- Analogue (literature), a literary work that shares motifs, characters or events with another, but is not directly derived from it
- Analogy, in language, a comparison between concepts
- Analogical change, in language, is the process of inventing a new element in conformity with some part of the language system that you already know
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