Summer Reading Assignment Truman Capote used rhetorical strategies such as climax and flashbacks when writing In Cold Blood. The main purpose for this book was to convey how the world is a place of misery, unpredictability, and suffrage. The use of the long and overdue climax I believe was the most effective strategy and it made the book both interesting, and annoying at the same time. Throughout the entire book you’re anxious to learn who committed the murder and why and the author made to give all of the answers in the absolute end of the book. But it was interesting because the wait gave us the full story of the event. The flashbacks on the other hand were the most necessary strategy. We need to understand the characters and in order to