Wed./Thurs. 9/9 & 10

• Complete argument outlines from last time.• Add opposing view and concession/refutation.

Visual Rhetoric

• We will examine some aspects of visual rhetoric in patriotic images, starting with our nation’s flag.

• Any nation’s flag is a symbolic representation of that country’s values and can be read as a “text.”

Use of Images and Graphics

• Color can contribute significantly to the visual appeal of an argument, by moving readers emotionally and imaginatively

• The appeal of colors to an audience and the associations that colors have for an audience are also important

• Images can be memorable; clarify ideas, add depth, liveliness, and emotion; juxtaposition of images

Flag Facts• The stars and stripes of the American flag originated as a

result of a resolution adopted by the Marine Committee of the Second Continental Congress at Philadelphia on June 14, 1777.

• The resolution read: Resolved, that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field representing a new constellation.

• The resolution gave no instruction as to how many points the stars should have, nor how the stars should be arranged on the blue union.

• Realizing that the flag would become unwieldy with a stripe for each new State, Capt. Samuel C. Reid suggested to Congress that the stripes remain 13 in number to represent the Thirteen Colonies, and that a star be added to the blue field for each new State coming into the Union.

• The Stars and Stripes has become a symbol of sovereignty. The writer Henry Ward Beecher said: A thoughtful mind when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself. And whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag, the government, the principles, the truths, the history that belongs to the nation that sets it forth.

Analyze the persuasive power of the following images.

What is the primary appeal?How do images and color help

convey the message? Use the purple packet- “SMELL” analysis

Writing the Persuasive EssayCensorship: Art Imitating Life