During Sophomore year in highschool you continually hear from teachers “Junior year will be the most academically challenging year in highschool”. This then causes many incoming Juniors to panic and often stress more than truly necessary. Panic and stress then spreads like an epidemic with no cure in sight, despite this seemingly hopeless situation, author Jay Mathews wrote an article to give 11th graders good advice and some much needed support. The use of diction in this article is extremely prevalent to its effectiveness since it’s target audience is going to be high schoolers who don’t quite understand “large words” or metaphors referencing things from the 1980’s. It allows the audience to better understand and even stay engaged while
