Guinea Pig?
"Obsessively checking your phone could have negative side effects."
What is the theme of Generation of Guinea Pigs?
"Over thy wounds now do I prophesy..."
What is foreshadowing?
"We see the dust of centuries, the dust which hid great secrets and perhaps great evils."
What is a metaphor?
"The more time teens spend in front of screens, the less happy they are, according to a 2018 study by Jean Twenge"
The author uses expert testimony to show negative side effects.
"...hart;...hart;...heart."
What is calling Caesar the leader, also explaining how much Shakespeare cares.
"My hands... my spirit... my sky... my forest... this earth of mine..."
What is parallelism?
"The country's treatment centers have earned the nickname "boot camps" because teenagers at the facilities wear camouflage uniforms and have to perform military-style drills."
"Some less extreme treatment facilities have popped up in the U.S. One is the reSTART, a retreat center in Fall City, Washington, for teens and adults who obsessively use technology?"
Comparing two different facilities that treat technology addictions.
"...conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils..."
What is Antony trying to make Caesar sound like a good guy?
The literary device in, "Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me; the guiding star and the loadstone which point the way. They point in but one direction. They point to me."
What is parallelism?
"Patients detox from technology while working with counselors to discover the root issues behind their tech dependencies."
Addicted, poisonous, harmful
The meaning of, "Thou art the ruins of the noblest man that ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed costly blood!"
What is Antony's declaration for revenge?
The meaning of, "Thou art the ruins of the noblest man that ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand the shed this costly blood!"
What is Antony's declaration for revenge?
"Linda Peng, a 17-year-old from Cedar Falls, Iowa, used to procrastinate by watching YouTube videos. Hours would pass without her realizing it."
"'Now, I stay away from my phone when I need to,' she says. 'I'll put it on airplane mode or simply put it on the other side of the room and do my homework.'"
First-hand testimony of phone addiction.
The meaning of, "I know not, gentlemen, what you intend, Who else must be let blood, who else is rank: If I myself, there is no hour so fit As Caesar death- hour, nor no instrument Of half that worth as those as your swords, made rich With the most noble blood of all this world. I do beseech ye, if you bear me hard, Now, whilst your purpled hands do reek smoke, Fulfill your pleasure. Live a thousand years, I shall not find myself so apt to die: No place will please me som no means of death, As here by Ceaser, and by you cut off, The choice and master spirits of this age."
Antony is splaying to their weaknesses so they believe him.
The literary device in, "It is my mind which thinks, and the judgement of my mind is the only searchlight that can find the truth."
What is assonance?