Invention
This chart collects all the ideas gathered during Invention.
What is an ANI chart?
This is what you do to separate the ANI chart columns into groups.
What is Sorting?
This is the statement of the proposition defended by an essay.
In Lost Tools, three of the same parts of speech written in a row in the same sentence is called this.
What is Parallelism 1?
The first part of the essay, developed after the body and conclusion are written.
What is an Introduction?
What is Comparison?
This is added to the beginning of the essay.
What is the Exordium?
These are the points that support the main proof in each paragraph.
What are subproofs?
This is an explicit comparison of two different kinds of things using "like" or "as."
What is a Simile?
A precise statement of agreement and disagreement between the writer and an opponent.
What is the Division?
This is a question about an action a character did converted into a statement that begins with "whether."
What is an Issue?
This is added to the end of an essay.
What is Amplification?
What is a sentence?
This is an indirect comparison between two different kinds of things.
What is a Metaphor?
This tells the backstory of the Issue.
What is the Narratio?
One of the five common topics, this asks what was happening at the same time and place as the issue or the same time but different place.
What is Circumstance?
This is a main reason in support of a thesis.
What is a Proof?
This is the kind of essay taught in Lost Tools of Writing.
What is a persuasive essay?
In Lost Tools, this is the name for a series of three phrases or clauses in the same grammatical pattern in a row in the same sentence.
What is Parallelism 2?
One of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their grammatical function.
What is a part of speech?
Name the five common topics.
What are Comparison, Definition, Circumstance, Relation, and Testimony?
This is the response to an opposing argument.
What is a refutation?
A group of words that does not contain both a subject and a predicate.
What is a phrase?
This is the name for a scheme in which strongly contrasting or opposite concepts are expressed in a parallel form.
What is Antithesis?
The portion of the Division that states the Thesis, Enumeration, and Exposition.
What is the Distribution?