The Comparison Essay Site Licensed Instructional Materials

Chapter One:  Organization  How to Write the Comparison and Contrast Essay;  How to Write an Analysis of Charles Lamb's Letter to William Wordsworth;  Checklist for the Coca-Cola versus Grove Press AP Essay;  Finding Common Ground.

Chapter Two:  Library of Suggested Reading Many Comparison Essay Prompts and Practice Using Comparison Skills to Write Personal Essays come with two huge lists:  Analyzing Novels and Short Stories of Literary Merit, and Analyzing Non-Fiction Selections of Literary Merit.

Chapter Three:  Applying the Skills Analyze Two Marriage Proposals;  Two descriptions of The Galapagos Islands;  General Checklist for a Comparison and Contrast Essay;  Comparing Poems;  Comparing William Wordsworth's "London"  to Paul Laurence Dunbar's "Douglass;"  Comparing the Effective Use of Dramatic Monologue in Several Linked Poems;  Comparing Love Poems.

Chapter Four:  Finding Comparisons in Larger Works
Using Coded Notes to track the elements and make conclusions after finding comparisons within the work;  Frederick Douglass;  Two Kate Chopin Short Stories;  Comparing Civil Disobedience to Antigone.