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• A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. BARNETT COCKS
• ANALOGY
• Formally, an analogy is an attempt to state a relationship between two things that don’t initially appear to have much in common (the word derives from the Greek word analogia, formally meaning a “proportionate” relationship between two pairs of things).
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms explains it this way: Illustration of an idea by means of a more familiar idea that is similar or parallel to it, and thus said to be analogous to it.
• Structurally, analogies are often constructed in the A is to B as C is to D format: