Chapter 1 in Envision talks all about how to recognize, and effectively analyze rhetoric. It is easy to recognize rhetoric because its everywhere. Living on a college campus, you will see rhetorical ads, pictures, comics, and statements everywhere you go. They are meant to convince you to buy certain items, join certain clubs, or vote for certain people. Anywhere you go, you can almost guarantee that there will be something or someone trying to convince you think a certain way. Recognizing rhetoric is the easy part.
Analyzing rhetoric is easy enough to a certain degree. Most people have probably analyzed rhetoric in their minds without even realizing it. When you are reading the newspaper and you come across a political cartoon, you read it, and either agree with it, or disagree with it. The artist may have used a number of rhetorical strategies to convince the reader; some obvious, and some not as obvious. In your mind, without even noticing it, you may pick apart the aspects of the cartoon to see how the artist convinced you to think a certain way—or you may see right through the artist’s effort and think the opposite way.
We are all surrounded by different forms of rhetoric in our everyday lives, and I believe that we all possess the ability to analyze it in our subconscious minds. Chapter one in Envision teaches us to better recognize rhetoric when we see it, and to consciously take it apart and analyze each aspect that the author or artist uses to persuade us.
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