Analyzing Visual ArgumentsDirections: First, take out your Rhetoric Record and fill in the notes about the rhetorical device called juxtaposition. Then, look at the picture on the next page illustrated by Shannon Brady and answer the questions below.1. In the picture, who might the person who is typing symbolize? Who are the other people below supposed to symbolize?

2. What are the similarities between the faces of the person typing and the faces of the computer mice?

3. Pay attention to how the artist juxtaposes the details listed in the chart below. Write down the details of the juxtaposition, and then explain what the artist might be trying to reveal through that juxtaposition.

What is being Juxtaposed:

The Person Typing The Other PeopleWhat point the artist is trying to make with

this juxtaposition:

4. Facial Expressions

5. Location

6. Size

7. What might the artist’s tone (attitude) be about the situation?

8. Based on these details, what do you think the artist’s argument might be?

Main claim: ________________________________________________________Reasons: _____________________________________________________

Evidence:________________________________________________

9. Who is the target/intended audience for this message? What makes you think so?

10. Genre: Why do you think the artist chose to send her message through this genre (illustration)? In other words, why is the genre of illustration a good choice? What does it offer that other genres don’t?

Illustration by Shannon Brady, page 42 of Teaching Tolerance, Fall 2010