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    Visual rhetorics serve as the modern incarnation of the idiom, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Mainly used by corporations, these powerful tools encompass a plethora of persuasion techniques designed to reel in an audience. Their marketing success manifests the usefulness of visual rhetorics. One particular company, Walmart, thrives with the practice of visual rhetoric and propaganda. Walmart’s visual rhetorics played a major role in their rise to partaking in the retail Ruling Class. Their most recognized symbol involves a simple happy face that goes by the name of Smiley. Walmart simply illustrates Smiley with two oval-shaped eyes and a smile all over a round yellow face. This simplicity turned out to massively benefit Walmart. Utilizing…

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    Visual Rhetoric Essay

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    Rhetoric is described as using language effectively and persuasively to convince or influence an audience. While rhetoric is almost always used in written or spoken form, the use of images (i.e., visual rhetoric) can be extremely persuasive as well. Visual rhetoric refers to how an audience interprets and responds to what they see with their eyes. In fact, visual rhetoric allows an audience to instantly connect with their emotional mind long before the rational side kicks in. One of the best…

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    Visual Rhetoric Analysis

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    Visual rhetoric Is the investigation of purposely-composed pictures influencing the gathering of people, however visual rhetoric introduces to the efficient structuralism way to deal with representation, which endeavors to depict these showed ways that political illustrated cartoons depict, moreover we discover that cartoons individual are used as a part of visual rhetoric devices that operate as part of political cartoons. It also employs celebrities, objects and even animated images…

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    Example Of Visual Rhetoric

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    Visual rhetoric plays an important role in today’s society. One cannot browse the web, walk down the street, or watch a movie without advertisements. The forms of visual rhetoric are everywhere in our daily lives and are the most recognizable form of visual rhetoric. Similar to advertisements, which persuade people to buy a product, propaganda persuade people to support an idea. One of the most critical times for propaganda in recent history is WWII, which saw world powers going to war. Each…

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    Visual Rhetoric Summary

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    III. Background Theories within the visual rhetoric field are immense. Most research steers within the scientific realm, and centers on the brain and how it controls peoples’ perceptions of images. For example, in Visual Imagery and Perception, Bertolo focuses on the cognitive processes that control the flow of “form, motion, and colour,” exploring the question of how all of the individual features within images are processed, whether they are binded together or processed separately (174). He…

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    are, can suffocate children very effortlessly. The initial message of this piece is to show the whole world how children are hurt and affected by abuse on a daily basis by adults. The target audience for this visual rhetoric is for anyone who knows or at least sees this image and they know they can help by taking action against the people who are provoking these comments and actions against all the innocent children off the world. The exigence of this picture is the help we need to provide to…

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    Visual rhetoric is communicated primarily through images or text with image. The personas behind the visual representations think no differently than the writers organizing their thoughts based upon rhetorical reflection. The audience of outdoor visual rhetoric are drivers and those who would be swayed by the goods and services advertised. The designers of the advertisement have the purpose of ensuring that the production is visually appealing to the audience and rhetorically effective. The…

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    Visual rhetoric in posts modern advertisements portrays products with single logos or those with images that identifies with them, which is a narrow form of analysis, hence need for detailed analysis of advertisements. Various researchers, including Derosa and Batra in 2002, Philips in 2000, and Scotts in 1994, identified learned exposure to visual imagery that enriches the cognitive understanding of pictorial advertisements messages. Philips and McQuarrie applied the same technique in 2004,…

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    During this presentation on the visual rhetoric used in the Rolex advertisement, there were numerous examples brought up. The most striking appeal of the advertisement was the bright image of the Rolex watch towards the bottom of the page. Set against a dull grey background, the watch stands out mostly due to its colors —silver and gold— which have a positive connotation. The color gold evokes thoughts of luxury, wealth and status. The ad makes the eyes travel downward, following the bolded…

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    Visual Rhetoric When you think of smoking what do you think of? Most people smoke because it helps release stress. Little do they know they're decreasing their chance of living a healthy life each time they smoke a cigarette. Is your life worth living for or do you want to decrease it every time you inhale a cigarette. There are nine cigarettes lined up next to each other from tallest to shortest. The image shows the original cigarette before and after it has been smoked multiple times. The…

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