Invention
Questions that help you invent material for an essay
What are the Five Common Topics of Invention?
Method of organizing notes about an issue before writing an outline
What is an ANI chart?
Repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of a sequence of words
What is alliteration?
The trouble with the man is that he was unable to do this:
What is imagine?
What is the thesis?
How is X similar to Y? How is X different from Y?
What is Comparison?
The part of the essay that invites or challenges the reader.
What is the Exordium?
A similarity of structure in a series of words, phrases or clauses.
What is parallelism?
The temperature in the story
What is 50 degrees below zero?
These ideas back up your thesis
What are Proofs?
Who or what is X? What kind of thing is X?
What is Definition?
A concluding statement that answers the questions "Who cares?" and "Why?"
What is the Amplification?
These should be strong, and written in the active, not passive form.
What are verbs?
The man made the first fire so he could do this
What is eat his lunch?
"Any man who was a man could travel _____ ."
What is alone?
What was happening in the same time and place, or in different places from, your issue?
What is Circumstance?
The part of the essay that identifies the point of agreement and disagreement
What is the Division?
A scheme that arranges contrasting ideas
What is Antithesis?
The kind of shoes the man was wearing
What are moccasins?
This explains how many reasons you will cover in your essay
What is Enumeration?
What do witnesses say about the character or his actions?
What is Testimony?
The part of the essay that presents and responds to the counter-argument.
What is the Refutation?
Comparison of unlike things
What are Simile and Metaphor?
The man had never experienced this season in the Yukon
What is winter?
The statement that explains why the counter-argument is ineffective.