contrast

During winter in my country, there is a big contrast or difference between the cold weather in the North and the warm weather in the South. This leads to another contrast: unlike the northern areas that get lots of snow in the winter, the South never has snow. Bodies of water in the North and South are also not the same when it’s cold. Southern lakes stay warm enough to swim in all winter, which is a contrast or something very different from the Northern lakes that are covered in ice!

Quiz: Try again! What is happening when a contrast is shown between two things?

• The qualities of each are listed in detail and then studied.
• The likenesses between the two things are shown.
• Qualities that are different between them are shown.

• Dicey could and did, listening to his voice as he made a harmony line with what she was singing, sometimes blending, sometimes moving in contrast. — Cynthia Voigt, _Dicey's Song_
• In the firing, the red slip had turned black, and the contrast of black and white against jade green was unmistakably new, different, remarkable. — Linda Sue Park, _A Single Shard_