Question

What is the correct way to read the following analogy?

Creeping: snail 
lumbering: elephant 


• creeping as to snail as to lumbering as to elephant

• creeping as to snail as lumbering as to elephant 

• creeping is to snail as lumbering is to elephant

• creeping is snail as lumbering is elephant

Answer 1

Answer is C. Creeping is to snail as lumbering is to elephant
The colon in analogies represents the words "is to" and makes the sentence flow easily. It connects the two words "creeping" and "snail" to  "lumbering" and "elephant"