Reading Is In Painful Decline

Envision a world where people refused to read. The world would not be as great of a place. The extensive increase in readers might force this to occur. In “Reading is in Painful Decline” by Stephen L. Carter, the author justifies how the decline is negatively affecting the country. Carter uses a wide variety of rhetoric to persuade the reader that the decline in reading is causing many of the country’s problems.

The first example of rhetoric pertains to appeal to fear.”A rise in proud non-readers would bode ill for the Nation’s future.” This makes the reader feel as if the nation is in trouble. This sentence also contains an example of loaded words, which is also an example of rhetoric. The use of “proud” makes the reader think about whether