Persuasive devices #2
Visual language devices
100

Often using inclusive language (we/our/us) to empower the audience to take action and work together to resolve an issue.

What is a call to action?

100

Relates to how subjects or other objects have been positioned in an image, artwork, or shot.

What is positioning?

200

A question with an implied but unstated answer.

What is a rhetorical question?

200

Wherever the viewer's eyes are drawn to first.

What is salience or focal point?

300

The strategy of providing two different solutions - one that is desirable/favourable and the other that is obviously undesirable.

What is a black and white choice?

300

The presentation of visual elements in an image, especially the placement of the subject in relation to other objects.

What is framing?

400

A previous example, cited to suggest that a current incident or situation is similar.

What is a precedent?

400

A way of representing a concept or an idea in simple visual form.

What is symbolism?

500

An argument that relies on suggesting that a small change will lead to progressively larger unintended and undesirable changes.

What is a slippery slope argument?

500

Combining two or more elements in the same picture, highlighting the interesting contrast between them.

What is a juxtaposition?

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