WE EAT SOCIAL MEDIA FOR BREAKFAST

In the essay "We eat social media for breakfast" by Dr. Preston, the use of literary devices is meant to get his point through, Through his essay, he brings forth his thoughts on how social media and pictures have changed the way our lives are now. Sure a captured moment can be something used to remember a story, but since now we post basically everything we do those pictures aren't what they used to be anymore. Dr. Preston shares his thoughts on this by his use of diction, syntax, tone, and rhetorical strategies.

After reading the essay, there was one thing that stood out to me. The tone in which the essay is told. It was a friendly tone, almost as if a friend were explaining something to you. Along with the friendliness, the tone is also set in the way in which he adds some humour to the essay. For, example, he tells us of some of his memories such as burning the last couple exposures. By adding humour and writing as if he were a close friend to the tone, the essay is easier to understand and gets to you.

Along with the tone reeling you in, the diction used also helps greatly. The diction used was basically something we, the teenagers, would use to speak to our friends. For example, he talks about his omelette using words that made you just picture that delicious omelette, in a way that a friend would describe their food in order to make you envy them a bit. By using this type of diction, the essay was fun to read and didn't get boring even when the odd high-vocabulary word was used.

Another literary device used by Dr. Preston were rhetorical strategies. A rhetorical strategy used was the little bombardment of questions used at the beginning. By basically blitzkrieging you with questions, it brings the reader in and sort of brings you onto his side of opinion. The questions made you seriously consider what he was saying making it even more effective. The use of pictures was also helpful in how you actually saw a picture of his breakfast and what he meant about eating social media for breakfast. The way he also wrote his sentences made it better. This form of syntax helped by making every sentence seem like a cliffhanger, which was answered in the next sentence, like short spurts.

In Conclusion, the way Dr. Preston presented his argument was effective. Its effectiveness is due to the use of syntax, tone, diction, and rhetorical strategies.