Rhetorical Analysis Of What's The Matter With Youth By William Goldwasser

The first rhetorical device Goldwasser uses is the article is a rhetorical question. She uses this to make the reader question how kids in this generation are different. Since there is new technologies in todays age, than there were fifty years ago, Goldwasser asks the older generation in the title, “What’s the matter with kids today?” (Goldwasser). Goldwasser uses a rhetorical question in the title in order to make the reader question what they think is the matter with kids today and to draw people into reading the article. Asking the reader “what’s the matter with kids,” shows that there is something wrong, but only to a certain group of people, the older generation. Saying “kids today,” shows that Goldwasser is not writing her article about