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Visual rhetoric encompasses the skill of visual literacy and the ability to analyze images for their form and meaning. [1] Drawing on techniques from semiotics and rhetorical analysis, visual rhetoric expands on visual literacy as it examines the structure of an image with the focus on its persuasive effects on an audience. [1]
Burke offers the metaphor to explain why people interpret messages differently, based on the construction of symbols, meanings, and, therefore, reality. [2] Words convey a particular meaning, conjuring images and ideas that induce support toward beliefs or opinions.
Rhetorical criticism analyzes the symbolic artifacts of discourse—the words, phrases, images, gestures, performances, texts, films, etc. that people use to communicate. . Rhetorical analysis shows how the artifacts work, how well they work, and how the artifacts, as discourse, inform and instruct, entertain and arouse, and convince and persuade the audience; as such, discourse includes the ...
Cluster Criticism otherwise known as Cluster Analysis is a method utilized in rhetorical criticism.This form of analysis was made famous by Kenneth Burke in which a critic attempts to unearth the hidden motive behind a text by focusing on the structural relations and associative meanings between certain main ideas, concepts, subjects or actions presented in a text.
In 1997, Janis Edwards and Carol Winkler expanded the idea of the ideograph to include visual images as well as written words. [6] They argue images can act as “a Visual reference point that forms the basis of arguments about a variety of themes and subjects” that are used by both “ elites and non-elites” alike. [ 7 ]
It illustrates a comparison between what is in the visual, including its connotations and denotations with another thing and its meanings figuratively. [3] For some visual metaphors the link between the images and what they are being compared to is the physical similarity while others it is the conceptual similarity. [ 4 ]
Metaphoric criticism is one school of rhetorical analysis used in English and speech communication studies. Scholars employing metaphoric criticism analyze texts by locating metaphors within texts and evaluating those metaphors in an effort to better understand ways in which authors appeal to their audiences.
In rhetoric, the theory of genre provides a means to classify and compare artifacts in terms of their formal, substantive and contextual features. By grouping artifacts with others which have similar formal features or rhetorical exigencies, rhetorical critics can shed light on how authors use or flout conventions for their own purposes.