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Last Child In The Woods Rhetorical Devices

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“Last Child in the Woods” by Richard Louv evaluates the author's argument concerning the clear separation that is happening between people and nature to which he questions what it will mean for the future of the world. To develop his argument Louv uses various rhetorical devices such as an allusion, anecdote from friends, strong connotations, juxtaposition and parallelism in relation to the actions of parents, repetitions along with anaphora, and imagery of the future to ultimately name technology as the culprit for the divide. Louv distinguishes the causes of the separation to make the readers- and all people helping deepen the divide- aware of what they are doing in order to call the required attention needed to result in a change. Louv …show more content…

It relates to Richter’s idea of combining nature and technology because it would be furthering technology but then it would pose the question of reality vs fantasy because it is encouraging people to look at technology more so than reality. This entire introduction emits some irony as Louv’s main argument consists of him questioning why there is a divide in the first place, blaming technology, but when Richter wants to bring the two together he goes as far as using the word “irrelevance” to describe what he sees nature would become. By including the tidbit of Richter’s idea Louv gave himself the opportunity to show just how passionate he is about this topic as he believes a serious shift in attitude needs to be made, not babysteps, and most certainly not by attempting to make nature more enticing due to the fact technology is within it. “...Certainly that it’s not even worth looking at” Louv remarks as he concludes his thoughts with more heavily connotated sentence making the audience actually question the foundation of Richter’s advertising idea in the first

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