• Necessity is the mother of invention. (English
proverb) :Objects of comparison: relationship between mother and child, relationship between necessity and invention :
Tertium comparationis: source, where something derives from • Woman is the
nigger of the world. (
John Lennon) :Objects of comparison: treatment of Black people in US culture, treatment of women in global culture :
Tertium comparationis: inhumane treatment, subjugation,
discrimination • Goodbye, England's rose. (
Elton John on the death of
Diana, Princess of Wales) :Objects of comparison: Diana; roses :
Tertium comparationis: beauty • If they [our two souls] be two, they are two so :
As stiff twin compasses are two; :Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show :To move, but doth, if th'other do. ::(
John Donne: "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning") (Read the whole poem.) :Objects of comparison: two souls; twin compasses :
Tertium comparationis: a non-physical link between separate objects that causes action in one to result in action to the other. ==References==