Rule #56: The only time to compare yo'self to others is in english

Okay team! Lets talking about comparing things (not yourself to others because that is a no-no we are all beautiful humans)! 

I’m talkin', Compare and Contrast in visual rhetoric.

You all know what comparing and contrasting is, I have faith you do. But let me break it down real quick to remind you. In comparing and contrasting, one would take anything really, could be a topic, event, picture, song, dog, cat, lizard... anything!! Anyways these two "somethings" you're comparing have a common subject, or quality that makes them similar enough to compare. As all things in life, when you have black you have white, when you have sad you have happy, hot and cold, and with comparing, you have the "sames" and the "differents". So of course, we spoke about this in class. The last assignment was comparing and contrasting two videos of the classic kindergarten song and story "The Itsy Bitsy Spider". So of course I compared them. 

Similarities:

Same song

Same spider creature (I hate spiders)

Fun looky-loo animations

Same story

Same sad struggle of water washing that little guy down the drain

BUT (remember when you have hot you have cold and when you have similarities you have -all together now- *all says in unison* "diiifferrrenncesss." Yes team! Correct. Differences here we go:

Differences:

Different beats

different pictures

different vibes

rock and roll and one was a rap

So pretty much when you're using Compare and Contrast in writing, there are basically two different ways to do this thing. The first way is Subject to Subject; looking at the different subjects separately and then at the end, come back and note the differences and similarities of the two (compare and contrast). The next method is the Point to Point; noting the differences and similarities by picking apart the subjects and comparing and contrasting their points right after each other simultaneously.