Tweet Less Kiss More S 09970012 S 10127014

Tweet Less, Kiss More 江德姿 S 09970012 郭綺婷 S 10127014

Understanding the Writer’s Idea

Q. What does the author note about his drive from Washington to New York on Interstate 95? 1. The author was passed on by a “flying car”. 2. He saw from the rearview mirror finding the woman was multitasking.

Q. What technological features dose the author identify? And, which one sounds like a nervous disorder? 1. e-mailing, text-messaging, chatting and tweeting 2. a sound like birds sound (twittering and tweeting)

Q. What is the “heightened freneticism” that the writer sees in our culture? 1. neurotic inability 2. multitasking 3. namely, Check out the e-mail so many times a day TV with “extra” information – stock market result, promo, and additional stories

Q. What fault does the writer find with “extras” like scrolling messages on the bottom of the TV screen? 1. complain about these features: stock market result, promo, and additional stories 2. block the significant part

Q. What does the writer identify as “one of the essential problems of our society”? 1. losing sight of what is truly human in ourselves 2. individual needs

Q. What does the writer find significant in the play Joe Turner’s Come and Gone? What line does the writer quote from the play? 1. everyone has a song inside of him or her 2. Song: nonmaterial things 3. “Something wasn’t making my heart smooth and easy”

Q. What, at the end of the essay, does the writer say we should stop doing? 1. stop tweeting 2. stop thumbing out message 3. stop piling up virtual friends 4. stop talking so much Try to kiss more and tweet less

Q. When, according to the writer, do “you become really you”? 1. reduce the speed limits of our lives 2. savor the trip 3. stop talking so much 4. begin to hear your “song”

Understanding the writer’s techniques

Q. What is the writer’s thesis? Tweet Less, Kiss More Stop being controlled by the technology Become real you

Q. How do the anecdotes at the start of the essay help frame the writer’s basic point? 1. common things happened in our lives 2. let the audience feel like he or she is the character 3. introduce the problems of the technology in our society

Q. Where else does the writer provide an anecdotes? 1. multitasking while driving (1, ) depict the problem of the technology brought 2. too much information brings out distraction and neurotic inability 3. real social network problem

Q. What does the writer mean by the title “Tweet Less, Kiss More”? Contrasting words Less virtual network Kiss: hug your real friends, savor your life

Q. Where else in the essay does the writer use figurative language to advantage? (Title) Tweet less, Kiss more Village idiot (8):

Q. In what ways is this selection a good example of cause-and-effect analysis? cause: over-reliance on technology effect: we shold control it(technology) (paragraph 8)

Q. Which rhetorical questions can most point out the writer’s thesis? Which questions would you be able to answer? 1. Why does anyone need to use additional electronic devices even in driving or watching? 2. What’s wrong with just listening to the radio? 3. Why is multitasking considered an admirable talent? 4. Why do we have to check our e-mail and using cellphone so many times a day?

Q. What is the purpose of the catalog of technological items in paragraph 6? 1. technological products surround us 2. reader awareness

Q. Where do you find an instance of the writer’s efforts at humor? Does it work? 1. “I only do it in traffic, ” he said. “It’s no big deal”. (4) 2. “I hate to sound so 20 th century” (5) 3. “Krazy Glue” (8)

Q. Who would you say is the primary audience for this essay? Someone who is addicted to the technology

Q. Who is August Wilson? Why does the author cite this particular writer? August Wilson is an African-American playwright They care the issue of “human” The background of Joe Turner's Come and Gone