1. Wysocki says that visual rhetoric is at work when persuasion includes visual strategies. Explain how
paying attention to visual strategies helps us “learn about and perhaps make changes in other values at
work in our culture” (186).
Answer: Rhetoric is sometimes used in writing or speech, which produces exaggeration. When using
visual rhetoric its harder to notice but when recognized its impact in culture is larger than realized.
“Analyzing and experimenting with visual rhetoric of our texts can help us perhaps develop new thinking
and relationships that might help us better achieve our ends” (186).
2. Give your own example of such “paying attention.”
Answer: When driving down the high ways you see countless rhetoric visual, they’re known as billboard
advertisements. You only remember seeing the ones that are the most bombast.
3. Choose several visual strategies from your own weblog, and explore the question posed by Wysocki (195):
How would your text be different if it where changed? (Remember, in this context “text” refers to all
aspects of the document, not just the words.)
Answer: My weblog would be very different if it were changed. A more exuberant and dazed mood
would be brought up if I had a birght flashy background, instead of the dark swirling calmness
background that I chose.