'analogies' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to comparisons between two different, often unrelated things. Example sentence: I was able to understand the idea better by using analogies to explain it.
There was insufficient time to pursue with the prime minister the possible Australian political analogies of a plotline in which a leader apparently set for a long reign is cut down prematurely.
As far as character analogies go, I suppose you'd have to have David Cameron as Simon Cowell.
The cold-war analogies here are partial, but persuasive.
But whisky (to honour the nation that invented the stuff, we will adopt the Scottish usage throughout) has at least two analogies with living creatures.
Her analogies between animal and human sexuality are particularly effective.
One role of instructors, particularly at the college level, is to smack down the sweeping generalisations and facile analogies their students tend to make, and try to force them to adopt more rigorous and complicated approaches.
IF ANALOGIES with the Great Depression are scary for Americans, they are hardly less so for Latin Americans.
Dr Spadafora's results suggest a more precise mechanism.Other biochemical analogies exist between sex cells and cancer ones.
He is a lively writer with a deft eye for catchy historical analogies.
ANALOGIES are often drawn between the fields of computer science and biology.
Quite apart from the doubtful idea that in Britain posh is the new black, the main reason the latest analogies don't work is that, socially and politically, Britain and America have diverged.To simplify, Britain has not had George Bush.
