Literary notes about compared (AI summary)
In literature, the word "compared" serves as a versatile tool that can juxtapose qualities, gauge significance, or highlight differences and similarities between objects, ideas, or characters. It is frequently employed to establish contrasts, as seen when a character’s faults are measured against social corruption [1] or when the physical appearance of one object is set against another’s in terms of size and interest [2]. The term can be used both for simple identification of similarities—such as the assessment of analogies in grammar [3] or the musical quality of a phrase contrasted with a smile [4]—and for more elaborate evaluative discourses that weigh one experience against another, as in contrasting monumental sacrifices against personal pride [5]. Overall, "compared" is not merely a descriptor but a dynamic mechanism for critical analysis and rhetorical emphasis across various literary forms.
- Hast thou compared the wants and the vices of his nature with those which he owes to society and prevailing corruption?
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway - It has a very rough appearance but aside from its size it is of no particular interest as compared to others.
— from Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting - meaning, 1393 ; used when two things are compared, 1456 ; expressed by compar.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane - The words were music to his ear; but what were they compared to the ravishing smile with which she flooded his whole system?
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner - What is the trifling mortification of my pride compared to the dreadful sacrifice of your happiness?" "You heard what he said to me?"
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
