Assertion Journal Analysis

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Assertion Journals Symbol: Refutation The part of an argument where a speaker or writer anticipates and counters opposing points of view. Example: “Okay, so meet me there?” “There’s really no point,” “Can you please let me decide that for myself?” (48) Function: So in this chapter Zoey and Stevie Rae are having an argument where she wants to save Stevie and gain her humanity back while she is still reluctant of it. Stevie Rae is rebutting all of Zoey’s arguments because it’s very predictable and she knows what Zoey wants to do. Though Stevie decides to come to be helped, she says it’ll be futile anyway. Symbol: Prose: Ordinary writing (both fiction and nonfiction) as distinguished from verse. Example: “I smoothed it carefully and, with a little sob, recognized it as a cutout part of a picture I had taken of the…show more content…
Zoey is taken surprise by the gift because this was supposed to be given to her on her birthday, but Stevie Rae but instead it was hidden in her drawer to be a surprise. She only found it after looking for clothes to give to Stevie Rae hiding out in Aphrodite’s house and had so much hope for Stevie Rae to regain her humanity back. Symbol: Rhetorical Question: A question asked merely for effect with no answer expected. Example: “Hi, … [you] feel better?” Zoey said. “You smell better,” Aphrodite said. “I glared at her. What? That was nice.” (134) Function: It was almost a type of comical humor to me in this paragraph. Like how rhetorical questions are almost mean, it was funny to me in this sense. It was also tense in the before and after paragraphs so it was like a type of tension release and whatnot as well. Though all of them argue afterwards again, I don’t think it was “appropriate” but Aphrodite is a “hateful-hag” in the story. Symbol: Conflict – problems throughout the story. Example: Chapters
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