A comparison question asks how two people, views, events, or passages sit next to each other. Find both sides in the text, then name the relationship. Agree, disagree, cause, before-and-after. Paired passages are the heavy version, in paired passages.
Two locators
The question will name two things. Mark both. Do not answer from the one you remember better. If they never meet in one sentence, you still need a line for each. Cause and sequence are neighboring jobs, in cause-and-effect questions and sequence of events.
Extreme wording that overstates the gap is in extreme language.
The bottom line
Two things, two lines, then the relationship those lines actually support.
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