Visual Argument
Sentence Structure
Genres
Elements of Rhetoric
Rhetorical Appeals
100
Warhol was to painting what Leibovitz was to photography. Hopper was to American Modernism what Wright was to American architecture.
What is media
100
This occurs when the writer intentionally deletes conjunctions from successive phrases or clauses.
What is asyndeton
100
A kind of literature that ridicules human folly or vice with the purpose of bringing about reform or keeping others from falling into similar folly or vice.
What is satire
100
The emotional implications and associations that a word may carry.
What is connotation
100
This appeal evokes a cognative, rational response in the reader.
What is logos
200
This is very representative of mood. Visually this can be used to express anger or rage, passion or love. It can symbolize a relationship with nature exposing cool, calm or serenity.
What is light and color
200
A type of sentence in which the main idea comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units, such as phrases and clauses.
What is loose sentence
200
This type of essay allows the writer to participate in an existing conversation by submitting their opinion about the topic.
What is synthesis
200
The choice and use of words in speech or writing.
What is diction
200
This appeal informs the reader of the writer's reliability and in return, gains the reader's respect. This appeal honors the reader's ideas and values through appropriate and reliable evidence as support.
What is ethos
300
Images that are used to express a greater idea or send a message to the viewer are known as what?
What is symbols
300
The nomadic Huck found himself in a quagmire when he meet the demagogue king and was forced to partake in the Royal Nonesuch and scam the Wilkses even though he was morally against it, but he knew if he didn’t the king’s rancor would send Jim back into slavery.
What is polysyndeton
300
“When people say to me how do you get through life or each day, it's the same thing. To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. Number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy. But think about it. If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week; you're going to have something special.” Jimmy V
What is speech
300
Language that expresses and arouses emotions. Understanding it and using it effectively is indispensable to the arguer who wants to move an audience to accept a point of view or undertake an action.
What is emotive language
300
Let us begin with a simple proposition: What democracy requires is public debate, not information. Of course it needs information too, but the kind of information it needs can be generated only by vigorous popular debate. We do not know what we need to know until we ask the right questions, and we can identify the right questions only by subjecting our ideas about the world to the test of public controversy. Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by product. When we get into arguments that focus and fully engage our attention, we become avid seekers of relevant information. Otherwise, we take in information passively--if we take it in at all. Christopher Lasch, "The Lost Art of Political Argument"
What is logos
400
When analyzing this aspect of visual argument, the writer will answer questions such as: What are positive and negative feelings? How does the creator achieve these reactions? How does the creator associate connotative meanings in with the images?
What is viewer
400
This sentence structure is marked by suspended syntax, the main idea or most important information is not revealed until the end of the sentence.
What is periodic sentence
400
In short I tried to think. I failed. My attention veered inexorably back to the specific, to the tangible, to what was generally considered, by everyone I knew then and for that matter have known since, the peripheral. I would try to contemplate the Hegelian dialectic and would find myself concentrating instead on a flowering pear tree outside my window and the particular way the petals fell on my floor. I would try to read linguistic theory and would find myself wondering instead if the lights were on in the bevatron up the hill. When I say that I was wondering if the lights were on in the bevatron you might immediately suspect, if you deal in ideas at all, that I was registering the bevatron as a political symbol, thinking in shorthand about the military-industrial complex and its role in the university community, but you would be wrong. I was only wondering if the lights were on in the bevatron, and how they looked. A physical fact.
What is narrative
400
"Her eyes were pools of liquid light."
What is metaphor
400
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RwdLdQxhZGk/TUBo2eP3nII/AAAAAAAAG0Y/oxKgUZamnoE/s1600/obama1-26-11%2B2.jpg
What is etho
500
This statement about a visual argument is an example of what: even when surrounded by people, it is possible to feel isolated and alone during moments of despair.
What is theme or message
500
These are four variations of syntax that a writer may use.
What is short sentences, long sentences, parallelism and repetition
500
“But more basically, I am in Birmingham because injustice is here. Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home towns, and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco Roman world, so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
What is letter
500
"We talked with each other about each other Though neither of us spoke —" (Emily Dickinson)
What is paradox
500
For me, commentary on war zones at home and abroad begins and ends with personal reflections. A few years ago, while watching the news in Chicago, a local news story made a personal connection with me. The report concerned a teenager who had been shot because he had angered a group of his male peers. This act of violence caused me to recapture a memory from my own adolescence because of an instructive parallel in my own life with this boy who had been shot. When I was a teenager some thirty-five years ago in the New York metropolitan area, I wrote a regular column for my high school newspaper. One week, I wrote a column in which I made fun of the fraternities in my high school. As a result, I elicited the anger of some of the most aggressive teenagers in my high school. A couple of nights later, a car pulled up in front of my house, and the angry teenagers in the car dumped garbage on the lawn of
What is pathos
M
e
n
u