Examining Photograph as a Piece of Visual Rhetoric Visual rhetoric essay: Write an essay that examines a photograph as a piece of visual rhetoric. your essay should dissect the individual components
of the photograph and illustrate how each of those components functions to make the ad/picture you’ve chosen function.
Then pass your own judgment on the effectiveness of the ad/picture. Pick anything for this assignment: a political ad, an environmental poster, human rights, anti-war, pro-war, patriotic, anti-patriotic, commercial, revolutionary, American/international, Etc,…
Discuss this picture/image in terms of:
The audience, foreground, background, text, color, focus, lighting, any other aspect of the image you think is relevant.
