Stephen Strauss’, “Feeding Monsters with our Young” really targets the use of variety in sentence length, emotional appeal, and repetition to emotionally engage his audience. First of all, using a variety of sentence length allows for a better connection with the audience. This correlates with the stories theme, and helps to emphasize on aids not being as bad as society perceives them. Including short sentences like, “What sadness?”(11) brings out the emotional effect within his audience that Stephen Strauss is trying to imply. Next, using a stylistic device like emotional appeal helps to emotionally engage the audience by comparing aids with “Children in the school who were sexually abused by their parents”(14). Stephen Strauss emotionally
