Dana Gioida reaches out to young Americans as an informative speaker to persuade them that the lack of literary reading could have a negative impact in society. The speaker uses logical appeal, repetition, and restatement to persuade their audience why literature is important. Throughout Giodia’s claims, she uses information from past surveys to support what she is trying to state and to give her audience an idea of the declining percentage in reading amongst young adults.”The decline in reading has consequences that go beyond literature” says Gioida as she then follows up that statement with the February issue of Wired Magazine. The use of repetition and restatement are used so that the speaker won’t lose their audience. Gioida repeats that
