Editing Tertium comparationis (section)

==Examples==
*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 (word)|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 [[Princess Diana]])
: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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20060515033452/http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/682.html 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.