266-274 Comparing and Contrasting

Comparing: Looking for similarities. Contrasting: Looking for differences. People do both of these all the time without even realizing it. There are two ways to organize comparing and contrasting: block, and point by point. When you use the block method, you give all the information about your first item and then the next item separately. In point by point, you basically compare them side by side at the same time. Metaphors help compare things by using like or as. This usually isnt contrasting things because it is trying to show how two things are similar.