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Technology's Teen Impact

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Technology's Teen Impact

Teenager using smartphone with social media icons

📱 Part 1: Analysing the Introduction

Read this introduction about technology's effect on teenagers:

Are you truly living your life, or merely documenting it for the digital world? You, as a teenager today, face an unprecedented challenge: your smartphone has become both your lifeline and your prison. The relentless buzz of notifications creates a dopamine-fueled addiction that rewires your developing brain—technology promised to connect us all, instead it has created a generation of lonely souls desperately seeking validation through glowing screens.

Use different coloured highlighters to identify:

1. Rhetorical question
2. Direct address to the reader
3. Emotive vocabulary
4. Interesting sentence structures and punctuation

🧠 Part 2: Analysis Questions

1. Why does the writer open with a rhetorical question? What effect does this have?
2. The writer describes smartphones as both "lifeline and prison". What do these contrasting images suggest about the writer's viewpoint?
3. The final sentence contrasts what technology "promised" with what it has "created". Why has the writer structured this sentence this way?

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