16.Selfies are Art

   This article written by Noah Berlatsky is about selfies: pictures of a person, taken by themselves. It goes on by defining what selfies are and why have them become so incredibly popular. It talks about how this mania for talking pictures of yourself has grew tremendously in 2013, and that it has become very common even in the celebrity midst. Berlatsky also goes on to show the different types of selfies: the group selfies, the individual ones and the ones with your pets.  The author also talks about the hashtags that come along with the selfies. How people ignore the real purpose of hashtags and just use it to make random comments about themselves.
    Berlatsky organizes this article in definition. It defines throughout the whole article what selfies are and how to correctly use it. He uses many rhetorical devices throughout this article. Starting by using an analogy to the Oxford Dictionary. He also uses Anacoluthons as well. In various occasions, Berlatsky, begins the sentence with a grammatical structure and finishes it with a different one. An example of that is, "When the Oxford Dictionary declared "selfie" the 2013 word of the year, it inadvertently kicked off a familiar argument about the relationship between women—or more precisely girls—and culture." Berlatsky uses a more informal language throughout this essay and by doing that he connects more to the audience he is writing to: selfie takers, which are people who spend time on the internet.

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/11/selfies-are-art/281772/