College Composition / Unit 29 CMP 0721 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Images as Rhetoric
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The idea
Images persuade too, through visual elements such as arrangement, color, composition, light, line and point of view.
In practice
Analyzing an image begins with description but goes further, asking what its colors, lines and composition mean or do for the viewer.
Where people slip
Ground claims about an image in evidence from the image and its context, not only in personal association.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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