comparison_and_contrast.pptVIP

Comparison Contrast Warm-up activity: Please find out the similarities and differences in the following two pictures: If you are figuring out the similarities, you are making a comparison of these two pictures. If you are figuring out the differences, you are making a contrast of these two pictures. Comparison or contrast paragraphs are used to show similarities or differences between two things. A comparison paragraph focuses on similarities, while a contrast paragraph on differences. Comparison and contrast are frequently combined to give a full treatment of a topic. However, A paragraph usually concentrates only on similarities or differences, not both at the same time. Though on the surface there seem to be some slight differences between the Russian workman and the American labor, basically they are much alike. To be sure, the one speaks Russian and the other speaks English; the one most likely lives in a government housing unit while the other may own his own home; the one likes borscht and the other prefers meat and potatoes and gravy. But their similarities far outweigh any differences you may notice. Both fall in love with the girl of their dreams; both celebrate a wedding as hilariously as they can afford; both rejoice at the birth of a son or daughter; both worry about their little ones when they are sick; both grieve when death enters the family. In these fundamental issues of life they are essentially the same. And so it is that, regardless of the official policies of their governments, when you come right down to it, both the sincerely and dearly want peace to prevail. The purposes of Comparison and Contrast With comparison and contrast, the purpose is not just to point out similarities and differences or advantages and disadvantages, but to present information about something unfamiliar by comparing it with something familiar; to show the superiority of one thing by contrasting it with another; to show the similarities or differenc