Graphic Persuasion
This is the practice of using elements like images, color, and typography to convey a message or evoke an emotion.
What is Visual Communication?
You’re choosing your words carefully, using persuasive speech, and minding your language. You’re showing this type of interpersonal communication.
What is verbal communication?
The intentional use of an announcer's narration falls under this audio technique.
What is Voiceover?
Communication with yourself — your thoughts, reflections, and self-talk.
What is intrapersonal communication?
When one person gives orders and the other follows, they’re engaging in this kind of “matching” communication pattern.
What is complementary behavior?
The intentional use of visuals on a movie poster or book cover to craft a persuasive message, shaping your perception before experiencing the work.
What is Visual Rhetoric?
You’re not talking—you’re nodding, maintaining eye contact, and reflecting back what someone said.
What is active listening?
This onscreen text typically appears last and can include the title, actors' names, or critical reviews.
What are Words Onscreen?
Encouraging inner dialogue that boosts confidence and motivation.
What’s positive self-talk?
This chilly form of nonverbal communication involves refusing to speak to someone as a way to express anger or control the situation.
What is the silent treatment?
This is a visual representation of data where shape, color, and texture help communicate information clearly and effectively.
What is a graph?
Your message looks great on screen, until autocorrect ruins your tone and you accidentally end a sentence with five emojis.
What is written communication?
When a promotional piece concludes without resolution, this literary device is used for the Closing.
What is a Cliffhanger?
This type of intrapersonal communication helps you recognize your emotions and triggers before they control your behavior.
What is self-awareness?
In this common relationship pattern, one person pushes for discussion while the other shuts down or walks away, creating a cycle of frustration and distance.
What is the demand–withdraw pattern?
Recurring images, symbols, or design choices, like a dark, hooded figure, that audiences immediately associate with a specific genre.
What are Visual Clichés?
You didn’t say a word, but your crossed arms, raised eyebrows, and sighs said everything.
What is non-verbal communication?
The elements that are not dialogue or music, but provide contextual sounds, like an explosion or a car screech.
What are Sound Effects?
This internal process can make the same event seem either a disaster or a learning experience—depending on your mindset.
What is perception?
When a heated argument starts to spiral, this strategy involves doing something unexpected—like responding calmly instead of yelling—to break the cycle.
What is using non-complementary behavior?
This study of how physical distance affects communication guides how viewers interpret relationships and power dynamics.
What is Proxemics?
You text your boss about a serious issue instead of calling, and it totally backfires.
What is choosing the wrong medium?
A trailer for a thriller that starts slow but climaxes with many fast cuts is demonstrating a specific change in this formal element.
What is Editing Style (or pace)?
Thinking things through and picturing possible outcomes can help you find new and creative solutions.
What is problem-solving?
Your email is full of acronyms and buzzwords no one understands.
What is using too much technical jargon?