David Foster Wallace's excerpt

The excerpt from David Foster Wallace’s Everything and More contains a large number of different literary elements in order to prove his point. His purpose is to make people think about a noun, but also clarify the meaning and make them not go too in depth with the definition and cause confusion. The theme of the excerpt is “always think critically about everything.” David uses a serious yet humorous tone to get his point across. He chooses to use simple, understandable diction in order to make it easy to understand what he is trying to say. Although the words are easy recognize, the word structure is a little complex. There are a lot of punctuations and the order in which the words are placed can be simplified. David also uses many other literary elements throughout the excerpt. Some are: allusion, ambiguity, analysis, aphorism, audience, purpose, rhetorical question, repetition, satire, and style.