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Hoopes employs irony with "we are surrounded by teenagers who seem reasonably proficient verbally but who do not in fact speak in sentences” to emphasize the fact that while people do have the ability to read, they don't utilize this skill making them alliterate and creating national concern.

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Townsend Hoopes relies on satire when describing the “serious social problem” of “aliteracy” in order to depict the growing social divergence from a motivated to a passive public, and to warn of the dangerous effects aliteracy will cause in the future.

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Townsend Hoopes employs irony with his evaluation of the growing gap between avid and infrequent readers to emphasize the long term effects and possible political manipulaion that aliteracy can have on our democracy.

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Hoopes describes the degression of analytical thinking and comprehension that has plagued the new generations. His use of humor in, “one in every five Americans is illiterate” is used to warn society that reading needs to be a staple in our education.

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Hoopes employs satire with "aliteracy," a "serious social problem, one that limits intelligent participation in our political process" in order to expose the "unstructured, fragmented, impressionistic" talks of the younger generations.

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Hoopes utilizes satirical comments such as "one in ever five Americans is illiterate" in order to mock modern teens and adults  who don't read ,while developing the idea that being illiterate weakens both democratic desicion making and writing skills.

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Hoopes utilizes satirical comments such as "one in ever five Americans is illiterate" in order to mock modern teens and adults  who don't read ,while developing the idea that being illiterate weakens both democratic desicion making and writing skills.

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If We Don’t Read, We Can’t Think by Townsend Hoopes employs irony to comment on how we are in a world with an abundance of information yet many individuals choose not to read the information and utilize it in their minds and discussions with others.

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Hoopes employs strong diction with words such as “mass public, elites, passive contentment, and reinforcing their power” in order to criticize the divide becoming more apparent between younger people, who are reading less, and the older leadership groups, who know the power that can be found in books and read constantly.

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Hoopes employs strong diction with words such as “mass public, elites, passive contentment, and reinforcing their power” in order to criticize the divide becoming more apparent between younger people, who are reading less, and the older leadership groups, who know the power that can be found in books and read constantly.

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Hoopes relies on irony with “We are surrounded by teenagers (and now post teenagers) who seem reasonably proficient verbally, but who do not in fact speak in sentences” in order to highlight how people do not read, but are educated, have become seemingly illiterate.

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Hoopes relies on rhetorical questions with “what if there is no reading in public?” in order to evoke the reader to further ponder about “aliteracy” and why the issue is arising as a prominent problem in today’s society.

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Hoopes appeals to logos when he states that “fewer than half of Americans read books with any regularity...” in order to highlight “the widening gap between the leadership elites and the general public” that threatens to weaken our participation in society.

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Hoopes employs specific examples, like analysis of american speech and refrence to historical WWII phenomena, to warn the public of our devolving speech skills, because an inability to effectively communicate would leave our democratic society doomed.

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Townsend Hoopes employs a hyperbole with "now only students read...Teachers of course don't read at all," in order to portray the American public as aliterate and therefore less capable of clear thought.

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Hoops employs irony when comparing America’s glorified young, illiterate child soldiers during World War One, with post-World War Two’s tendency to look down upon illiteracy to allude to the hypocrisy of society.

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Hoopes relies on point of view when he states "aliteracy is becoming a serious social problem" by addressing the lack of participation in reading by today's society. Hoopes hopes to motivate a larger population to return to reading to educate themselves on modern issues.