Who is the intended audience?
Young teenagers, but can also be adults to hear the opinion of the writer.
State the father's argument in your own words.
The son says that the father does not treat him as an adult, the father's argument to this is in a few years when time and experience make him mature, he will then treat him as an adult.
Define the technique of reversal and explain how the author uses it in the essay.
Technique of Reversal: Taking a problem and reframing it in terms of its opposite can change the direction of your thought and generate new solutions.
The author uses the technique of reversal when he gives the example of the man who pretended he was one of the teenagers to get their attention. He thought by doing so the teenagers …show more content…
flashback, metaphor, and allusion. A flashback is a device by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work. Meyer uses this in the essay when she writes “A teacher approached me after class a few weeks ago. “Did everyone seem a little bit distant today?” he asked. Yes, we had”. She uses this specific flashback to support her argument that technology is making students distant in the classroom and since the teacher had taken it into notice it must be prominent in the classroom. It also allows her to bring forth her next argument of the lack of focus in classrooms due to technology and how that was not always the case earlier in the year. A metaphor is a figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common characteristics. This is used in the essay when it says “The iPhone has taken my school by storm.”, this is a metaphor because an iPhone literally cannot take a school by storm but by saying this the writer means that the iPhone has changed the school drastically probably due to the immense use of it in classrooms or hallways by students and teachers. Before this metaphor, the essay was only discussing how technology has negative effects on just the students but after the metaphor is used it mentions the teachers also. An allusion is a brief and indirect reference to a person, place thing or idea or historical, cultural, literary or political significance. The allusion is mentioned at the very end of the essay “One biblical prophet’s vision foretold that, in the messianic age, the lion would lay down with the lamb…but in my vision during class, the smartphone would stay out of the hand”, the allusion was used to simplify the complex idea of
Young teenagers, but can also be adults to hear the opinion of the writer.
State the father's argument in your own words.
The son says that the father does not treat him as an adult, the father's argument to this is in a few years when time and experience make him mature, he will then treat him as an adult.
Define the technique of reversal and explain how the author uses it in the essay.
Technique of Reversal: Taking a problem and reframing it in terms of its opposite can change the direction of your thought and generate new solutions.
The author uses the technique of reversal when he gives the example of the man who pretended he was one of the teenagers to get their attention. He thought by doing so the teenagers …show more content…
flashback, metaphor, and allusion. A flashback is a device by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work. Meyer uses this in the essay when she writes “A teacher approached me after class a few weeks ago. “Did everyone seem a little bit distant today?” he asked. Yes, we had”. She uses this specific flashback to support her argument that technology is making students distant in the classroom and since the teacher had taken it into notice it must be prominent in the classroom. It also allows her to bring forth her next argument of the lack of focus in classrooms due to technology and how that was not always the case earlier in the year. A metaphor is a figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common characteristics. This is used in the essay when it says “The iPhone has taken my school by storm.”, this is a metaphor because an iPhone literally cannot take a school by storm but by saying this the writer means that the iPhone has changed the school drastically probably due to the immense use of it in classrooms or hallways by students and teachers. Before this metaphor, the essay was only discussing how technology has negative effects on just the students but after the metaphor is used it mentions the teachers also. An allusion is a brief and indirect reference to a person, place thing or idea or historical, cultural, literary or political significance. The allusion is mentioned at the very end of the essay “One biblical prophet’s vision foretold that, in the messianic age, the lion would lay down with the lamb…but in my vision during class, the smartphone would stay out of the hand”, the allusion was used to simplify the complex idea of