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Which excerpt from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet contains an example of a literary analogy?

What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.

Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,

O, where is Romeo? Saw you him to-day?
Right glad I am he was not at this fray.

Her traces, of the smallest spider's web;

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The correct answer is What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.

A literary analogy would be anything where two things that are seemingly not related in any way are connected through some kind of meaning, which happens here.
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