VCE Study Guides © | Reading and Comparing Vocabulary Bank List of comparative words for essays Definitions Compare – to find similarities between your studied Literature texts. Contrast – to find differences between your studied Literature texts. Sentence starters: Compare Additionally As well as At the same time Comparably Compared to Correspondingly Furthermore In addition In parallel Just as Likewise Moreover Same as Similarly Contrast Despite that Although Meanwhile Nevertheless On the other hand On the contrary Yet However Nonetheless In contrast Unlike Even so Conversely Even though Phrases: Compare Both authors take the same approach… This is mirrored in… …is equally significant in both texts. This can also be seen in… Contrast While this is the case, in… This is contrasted in… …is contrasted in both texts. This is not the case in... VCE Study Guides © | Reading and Comparing Vocabulary Bank