Flocabulary Compare Contrast

What is the definition of contrast?

• What?

• Explain how something is different from something else.

• Explain how something is the same from something else.

• When two objects are found together.

Differ

• compare

• contrast

A _________is a useful tool to use when writing about how two things are alike and how they differ.

• Transition word

• Venn diagram

• Specific

Not the same as another thing; unlike.

• Specific

• Compare

• Contrast

To explain how something is similar to something else.

• Specific

• Compare

• Contrast

The horses looked _________ to each other; They had the same white markings on their foreheads.

• Different

• Transition word

• Similar

My teacher asked me to use more _______ like "similarly" and "however" in my writing to show the relationship between my ideas.

• Venn diagrams

• Transition words

• Specifics

To explain how something is different from something else.

• Contrast

• Compare

• Transition word

Janine was asked to ___________ the twin girls, so she began explaining all of the things they had in common.

• Specific

• Contrast

• Compare

Very much the same as something.

• Similar

• Specific

• Different