English-2
Grade-8
Easy

Question

Read the following sentences. Find out whether the statements compare the given points or contrast them.
Epics are long narrative poems that deal with serious subjects, but elegies are the poems that lament the death of somebody.

  1. Comparing
  2. Contrasting
  3. Both comparing and contrasting
  4. None of the above

hintHint:

Contrasting is the term which shows the differences among the people or the things given.

The correct answer is: Contrasting


    To contrast is to tell how two or more people, things, or ideas are different. You can use these words or phrases to contrast: as opposed to, but, contrary to, different from, however, etc. 'Epics are long narrative poems that deal with serious subjects, but elegies are the poems that lament the death of somebody', here it is contrasting.

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