Picture your life taking place in a small town where nothing ever happens and suddenly out of nowhere, a family murdered in cold blood. In the nonfiction novel, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, he uses many rhetorical devices and strategies. By using these strategies he creates a nonfiction novel worth reading. Capote uses devices such as pathos, imagery, foreshadowing, and an always changing tone. He uses these devices to lead on a mysterious murder first hand in which they are investigating to find the perpetrator or perpetrators. Moreover, Capote uses pathos kind of often throughout the novel. He frequently used pathos when describing one of the perpetrator’s past, Perry. When Perry was a child he was abused by his father and he developed
