Visual rhetoric is communication through visual images
whether they are videos or a single photo or image. Visual rhetoric has been
around dating back to cavemen times, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and native and
tribal symbols. We use visual rhetoric everyday, when we FaceTime or video chat
with our friends and family, when we are on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook,
(which most of us are on constantly throughout the day… in our classes), and
when we watch the news or read the news paper.
The newspaper always has political cartoons, sometimes funny
with witty meanings behind them.
The image I have chosen for my visual rhetoric is a very
well known and popular image that has been in newspapers countless times,
school textbooks and recruitment posters.
What does the image shown above bring to mind? Even if one had
never seen this image before, there are many key factors that give away the
meaning of this poster. The fact that the main colors are red, white and blue,
would make one associate it with The United States of America. Uncle Sam
(abbreviated U.S.) is the United States government and its people and this
poster was used for the recruiting of young men during World War I and II.
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