tools

Tools:
 * Metaphoric physical description (Methland, when the young girl is playing the arcade game like she is taking a test)
 * Irony (Meth is intensifying things it was supposed to cure)
 * Composite Characters (Dickens, making a clear point of view in the story)
 * Allegory (Electric Kool Aid Acid Test)
 * Say what figurative language you are planning to use
 * Changing perspectives for effect (placing point of view in the mind of the character being reported)
 * Communicating with your subject
 * Dialogue
 * Diction ("Consider the Lobster" title is able to have layers of meaning)
 * Title is able to be the central metaphor that is being developed throughout the story
 * In media res
 * Factual frames (for exposition, historical, scientific significance)
 * Exposition
 * Consider what the reader needs to know/is wondering
 * Parallelism (In Cold Blood, subjects back and forth)
 * Hyperbole
 * Perspective changes to develop controversy
 * Idea, thesis statement, seems to change throughout the story
 * Incorporating the Liminal Process

TOOLS FROM "Breakable Rules for Literary Journalists":
 * reveal subject's "frailty, tenderness, nastiness, vanity, generosity, pomposity, and humility," and to uncover a human's great flaws
 * "Use self-deception, hypocrisies, and graces" to uncover understanding
 * Ethical concern: author's relationship to both readers and sources
 * Authors can choose rules, but must follow them to the end
 * Experience vs. observance
 * LOTS OF PHYSICAL DESCRIPTIONS to lend credibility
 * If you are going to violate the facts/reality in some way, state it
 * Lie as long as you say you do ...be honest about the lying