- Denby uses imagery to give a distinct image of what the girls look like and who they are associated with to help the reader have a better understanding. Figurative language is used for the visual effect by comparing it to something relateble to the reader. There is also an allusion to She’s All Thatthrough a quote in paragraph one. Hyperbole is used to exaggerate the physical features of the characters.
- In the first paragraph, Denby portrays the girl as a “wicked princess” and in the second he shows the male as a stupid jock. The girl conflicts emotional pain on people, while the male plays pranks and jokes for fun. In these circumstances, the women are portrayedas more authoritative.
- The tone changes between paragraph thirteen and fourteen. When he goes from talking about romantic comedies to thrillers. Denby writes about happy endings and then starts to talk about school masecre movies. He uses a break to emphasize the change of subjects.
- He makes the shift from the introduction to his main analysis by the use of syntax through the use of declarative sentences and then rhetorical questions.
- The rhetorical questions are answered throughout the essay by compare and contrast with the real high school experience. He understands how high schoolers feel to more thoroughly answer the questions.
- To appeal to ethos, Denby uses experience and expertise of the screenwriters that create these movies from personal experiences. His explicit examples are given to us through the summaries of the movies provided, while he implicitly put in the quote, “You’re vapor. You’re spam.”
- Denby’s main argument is that genre films reflect reality in an emotional sense, but are dramatized for the viewers interest. The smaller claims are that movies are highly dramatized, they make the oddball the hero to be relatable to the average student, and high schoolers are dying to fit in.
- Screenwriters use their experiences through their films increasing credibility and appealing to ethos. At the same time, they appeal to pathos because they know what is going on in a high school student’s life, which makes it easier for those students to relate to.
- Denby supports his claim that the Columbine shooters didn’t learn the lesson that the geeks end up with the money and the girl in the end and that they were too impatient for everything to turn out okay and just took matters into their own hands.
- Denby’s sub-genres bolster his argument because they show how incredibly dramatized they are. He discusses teen movies that go beyond the genre with the movies that are over the top with unrealistic plots. Some of the movies that he spoke of had gruesome revenge scenes where everyone was brutally murdered by machine guns in the courtyard of their school. In reality, most of the revenge is done through mean gossip and fighting, not mass murders of the majority of innocent classmates.
- The main audience for this essay is young adults. Denby uses examples that are easily relatable to teenagers. He talks about movies that are modern and refer back to high school the same way that we would look at it.
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