Visual Rhetoric Basics
Abu Ghraib Scandal
Gender in Abu Ghraib
Emotional Power
Media & Pop Culture
100

Name what visual rhetoric is. 

What is images that send a message, and create an emotional reaction that shapes how people see and understand something?

100

Name the location of where Abu Ghraib was.

What is Iraq? 

100

Name who became the face of Abu Ghraib scandal.

Who is Lynndie England? 

100

Name what pathos is. 

what is emotion?

100

The celebrity mentioned faced gender framing in the media.

Who is Britney Spears?

200

Name what visual rhetoric relies on the most. 

What is Pathos (emotion)?

200

Name the year that Abu Ghraib scandal broke into the media. 

What is 2004?

200

The terms were used to describe Lynndie England.

What is “Tomboy or promiscuous”?

200

Name one of motion triggered by the Abu Ghraib images. 

what is disgust, anger, shame, fear, or sympathy.

200

Describe what Vanessa Gullian’s story evoked. 

What is emotion?

300

True or false:all images are emotionally neutral.

What is false? (visuals are always loaded with messages)

300

Name what the photos from Abu Ghraib revealed.

What is US soldiers abusing, torturing and humiliating Iraqi prisoners?

300

The label male soldiers were described as. 

What is “soldiers“?

300

Describe how visuals affect us before logic.

Images hit our emotions first - we feel before we think.

300

Name the action committed by a man that destroyed a homeless man’s offering of kindness. 

What is the stomping or jumping on the cake? 

400

Name one emotion visuals can trigger.

what is anger, fear, shame, sympathy, or pride.

400

Name one of the two key U. S. soldiers in the Abu Ghraib scandal. 

Who are Lynndie England and Corporal Charles Garner?

400

Name how Lynndie England became a ”symbol”.

What is represent all women in the military? 

400

Name what is shock value in an image.

What is the ability to cause surprise, discomfort, or strong emotional reaction?

400

 Name what the speech from America Ferrera in “Barbie” evoked.

What is gender framing & emotion? 

500

Name how did the media visuals have shaped how we think. 

What is tapped into emotions before we logically process the situation.

500

Name how the Abu Ghraib images affect public perception.

What is people questioned the US military ethics and power? 

500

Name what made Lynndie England’s photo with the prisoner on a leash so impactful to the public. 

What is shock value?

500

Name how body language in an image affects interpretation. 

What is nonverbal communication through the body help shape how we understand, power, emotion, or intent through visual rhetoric? 

500

True or false: The author of “Gender (In) Visibility At Abu Ghraib” is Dr. Cho. 

What is false? (it’s Marita Gronnvoll)