Assertions

• Assertion

  • a statement of a strong belief that is a fact
  • usually expressed after a story, article, poem, move, etc.
• Basic Assertion

  -simple and straightforward statement
• Emphatic Assertion

  -conveys sympathy

  • recognition of the feeling of another person
  • showing support
• Escalating Assertion

  -when someone is not able to give a response to a person's basic assertion, so the person becomes firm about him/her