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Questions To Consider - Essay 2

The document provides questions to consider for analyzing rhetorical appeals, visual rhetoric, and reading with and against the grain in an essay. It asks the reader to identify elements of ethos, pathos, and logos, which appeals are most powerful, and if there is a balance. It also prompts analysis of word choices, colors, visual focus, how text and images blend, and portrayed ideographs. For reading with the grain, it asks how the message persuades and its importance. For reading against, it asks about logical errors, bias, potential negative consequences, and problematic ideas.

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Questions To Consider - Essay 2

The document provides questions to consider for analyzing rhetorical appeals, visual rhetoric, and reading with and against the grain in an essay. It asks the reader to identify elements of ethos, pathos, and logos, which appeals are most powerful, and if there is a balance. It also prompts analysis of word choices, colors, visual focus, how text and images blend, and portrayed ideographs. For reading with the grain, it asks how the message persuades and its importance. For reading against, it asks about logical errors, bias, potential negative consequences, and problematic ideas.

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QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER-

ESSAY 2 Where are elements of


ethos? Pathos? Logos?
Rhetorical Appeals Which ones are most
powerful?
Does the text have an equal
balance of the three?
What word choices does the
author make (figurative
language etc) to evoke feeling?

Visual rhetoric Is the message largely


dominated by an image or text?
What colors are used and
what feelings do these evoke?
Where is your eye drawn
first? What’s an afterthought?
How does the text work with
the image? Does it blend well,
stand out, seem disconnected?
What ideographs or
stereotyped images do we see-
i.e. Mother and child, strong
family man, etc.

Reading with the grain


How does the message work
to persuade you?
Why is the message
important in today’s world (think
kairos and exigence)?

Reading against the grain


What are some errors or
lapses in reason within the
piece?
Is it too heavily one-sided
(too much pathos, etc.)?
How could believing this
piece lead to negative
consequences?
What problematic ideas does
the piece portray?

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