All 7 Uses of
contrast
in
Gone with the Wind
- It was a pleasant land of white houses, peaceful plowed fields and sluggish yellow rivers, but a land of contrasts, of brightest sun glare and densest shade.†
Chpt 1.1 (definition 1)
- By contrast with his own miserable existence, they were well-fed, well-clothed and looked after in sickness and old age.†
Chpt 1.3 (definition 1) *
- The avenue of cedars leading from the main road to the house—that avenue of cedars without which no Georgia planter's home could be complete—had a cool dark shadiness that gave a brighter tinge, by contrast, to the green of the other trees.†
Chpt 1.3 (definition 1)
- Honey's nervously obvious desire to be attractive to every man in sight contrasted sharply with her father's poise, and Scarlett had the thought that perhaps there was something in what Mrs. Tarleton said, after all.†
Chpt 1.6 (definition 2)
- How strange the quiet of this deserted end of town in contrast with the day of the fighting at Peachtree Creek!†
Chpt 3.21 (definition 1)
- But he looked bright and cheerful, in contrast with the lines of sorrow and worry and weariness which Scarlett saw in faces everywhere.†
Chpt 4.35 (definition 1)
- The contrast between the dirty, hairy old man and the four neat, fastidious ladies was as great as though he were a grizzled, vicious old watchdog and they four small kittens.†
Chpt 4.45 (definition 2) *
Definitions:
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(1) (contrast as in: contrast their writing styles) point to differences between; or compare to show differences
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(2) (contrast as in: there is a contrast) a difference -- especially a notable difference; or the side-x-side arrangement of things that draws attention to an unmissable difference