Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Visual Arguments - POST SECRET cards

Here are a few postcards from POST SECRET

Choose one of these cards or one from the PostSecret blog (linked above) and analyze its rhetorical effect. Consider the following questions:

  • What is the text in these messages? Is there an explicit verbal claim? What is the implicit claim?
  • What kind of author can this be? What about the audience?
  • Is there textual support? How does the visual component work in these cards?