Thank You for Arguing Literary Elements

Study guide

The study guide is written in the context of rhetoric argumentation and exploration.

First-person point of view.

Bubbly and conquering

The narrator is the protagonist of the book.

The major conflict occurs when people argue and quarrel without reaching a consensus. Therefore, in such cases, the author argues that the argument is useless.

The climax is reached when the author makes an argument on planning and seduction as the best tactic of making arguments meaningful to reach a Conesus. When making an argument, people need to use logic to win a discussion.

The study of Aristotle foreshadows rationality in argumentation because, in the long run, people use logos, ethos and pathos as the three vital approaches to winning a rhetoric argument.

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The story alludes to winning an argument using different rhetoric approaches.

The story is full of images of sight, taste, hearing and touch. For instance, the book commences with visual imagery when the narrator describes how his son eats breakfast.

The main paradox lies in the American political formation.

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Seduction and planning are metonyms for logical reasoning in argumentation.

Persuasion is personified with human character.