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Why Literature Matters By Dana Gioia Summary

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In the article, “Why Literature Matters,” which was written by Dana Gioia, who talks about how the literacy rate in America is declining rapidly.In this essay i'm going to explain the 3 types of techniques that were used in the article, and those 3 techniques are logos,facts, and diction. The way the author was able to use the 3 techniques(logos,facts, and diction) in his article, was he used logos to appeal to the reader with logic when he said, “ The decline in reading has consequences that go beyond literature.” In a way he was trying to tell us the consequences of not reading does not only of to do with literature, but has to do with a bigger meaning. Moreover, the author used facts in his article he was trying to give actual facts to

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