Rhetoric Vocab
the wide array of communicative devices humans have at their disposal to create effects on each other
What is Rhetoric?
the content or gist of an act of communication
What is the Message?
one of the boxes on the page of a comic book.
What is a Panel?
WORDS AND PICTURES COMBINED PICTORIALLY.
What is Montage?
Appeared in Action Comics #1. Credited for Kickstarting the Superhero Genre in Comics.
Who is Superman?
the effort to understand how communication creates particular effects on people
What is Rhetorical Action
the intended recipients of an act of communication
What is the Audience?
Similar to a word balloon, these are usually portrayed as a character’s thoughts
What is a thought Bubble?
Words and pictures both sending roughly the same message
What is "Seeing Red" from Marvel Voices Identity?
how the logic or content of the message (its internal consistency) appeals to an audience
What is Logos
the audience imagined by the communicator
What is the Invoked Audience?
The empty space between panels.
What is a Gutter?
WORDS AND PICTURES WORKING TOGETHER IN SOME RESPECTS WHILE ALSO CONTRIBUTING INFORMATION INDEPENDENTLY.
What is Intersecting?
The city Juan and Mercedes, from Home #1, are fleeing from.
What is Guatemala City?
how messages persuade by arousing or appealing to the emotions of the audience
What is Pathos
what the communicator hopes to achieve with this particular rhetorical action
What is Purpose?
Indicates speech. Contains Dialogue.
What is a word balloon?
Words and pictures combining to convey an idea that neither would convey alone.
What is interdependent?
S.H.I.E.L.D agent at the end of Spider-Man: Miles Morales
Who is Jefferson Davis?
how messages persuade (or “appeal”) to an audience) as a result of the communicator’s character
What is Ethos
whatever prompted a rhetorical action; the opportunity for communication
What is Exigence?
words appear in a box separated from the rest of the panel or page, usually to give voice to a narrator, but sometimes used for the characters' thoughts or dialogue.
What is a Caption?
Words and pictures following seemingly different paths without intersecting
What is Parallel?
What comics is this line from "Fancy words for a guy who spend his entire life in his dad's cult! You probably do have a better hold of the deadly hand, but I've learned too."
What is "What Is vs. What If" from Marvel Voices Identity?