What do you call the comparison that uses 4 sets of colons?

Hat : head :: shoe : foot
Read "Hat is to head as shoe is to foot." What do you call this comparison?
Is there not a more specific term? Analogies are used all the time in speech without following the format. Something like paired analogies or something?

Analogies is the proper term

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One Response to “What do you call the comparison that uses 4 sets of colons?”

stephen k on February 5th, 2010 at 7:54 am

Analogies is the proper term
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