WE EAT SOCIAL MEDIA FOR BREAKFAST

Topic: Write an essay in which you analyze the author's use of diction, syntax, tone, and rhetorical strategies to develop his main argument.

Words are life. We can use words in a good or bad way. In the essay called WE EAT SOCIAL MEDIA FOR BREAKFAST, the author uses all kinds of variety’s if diction, syntax, and rhetorical strategies to develop his main argument by doing exactly what he said he wanted to do. In the essay, the author starts off his essay by having a paragraph that is nothing but questions which is a rhetorical strategy, he also uses diction to say what he wants, and the tone was genital, sincere, and truthful. There are many ways to write an essay that will lead you to your main argument.

            In the start of the essay, there is a paragraph that was all question which is a rhetorical strategy because he wanted us to be thinking about questions and be ready for what is coming. One important question that was asked was “What IS the job? “because many of us have wonder what is the job and how to do it. These questions us lead us to the point of the author and it makes us want to better understand what the author wants us to know. Rhetorical strategies are used here to make us ask these questions to ourselves and to answer it then as we read on we get the right answers and learn from it.

            The right use of diction and syntax was one of the things that made this essay good and believable because it makes a person know what they are reading. A good sentence from the essay that used good diction and syntax is “We no longer tell the stories of our pictures. Our Pictures tell the stories of us”. What this sentence basically means is that we can’t say enough words to describe a picture because a picture is like a million words and we don’t know the right way to say what we want to say.

            There are many ways to write an essay that will lead you to your main argument. These sentences are my reason for why the author's Diction, syntax, tone, and rhetorical strategies to develop his main argument which was that we must think about what is the right tool for the job because some us don’t think and we just DO and that leads to trouble and bad things happen to us.