Links to rhetorical tools:

Here are links to the rhetorical tools used in this class:

Schemes & Tropes -- Perelman & Olbrechts-Tyteca -- Fallacies -- Burke -- Rhetorical Toolbox -- Conspiracy Rhetorics

Monday, January 25, 2016

Jason Rosenbaum Pepsi
























Schemes

alliteration
consonance
Repetition of consonance sounds
“get a big big bottle”
Alliteration
consonance
Repetition of consonance sounds
“More bounce to the ounce”
emphatics
epizeuxis
Repetition of one word
“get a big big bottle”

enumeratio
Detailing parts or arguements
“Too hot? Cool off! Get Pepsi”
parallelisms
tricolon
Isocolon with three parts
“Too hot? Cool off! Get Pepsi”
 


Tropes
Question
erotema
Asking a rhetorical question
“Why have less…when Pepsi’s best?”

erotema
Asking a rhetorical question
“Too hot? Cool off! Get Pepsi”

Visual
color
hue
The identification of the colors
The main colors of the ad are the blue of the swmming pool and cream of the background. The blue is water in the pool which is staple of summer time. The cream is similar to sand like a beach which is also a symbol of summer time.

Value
The lightness or darkness of a color
The ad primarily pretty bright except the shadow under the girl sitting by the pool with her feet in the water. Bright colors are rampant summer time.

saturation
The purity or vividness or depth of a color
The colors are very vivid they are all spread out from each other and do not conflict.
perspective
geometric
An illusion of depth and space
There is a clear for ground of people at the pool and a background of the people at the table.
diagonals
balanced
The image is symmetrical and stable
The image is centered and symmetrical
space
closed
The tops and sides feel enclosed, trapped
The pool at the bottom and the wording at the top enclose the table in the middle
focus
grounding
Foreground middleground background
There is the pool in the foreground, table in the middle and wording in the background.

focalizers
Focus points
The green of the girl’s bathing suit and towel. The yellow of the tube.
Angle
Low angle
Looking up
It seems like we are behind the interaction looking up at what they are doing.
Figures
representationality
To what extent does the image show things we can identify?
You can recognize the bottles the chairs the pool the towel etc.

abstraction
How realistic are the things
Everything looks realistic except the horse thing on the inner tube

Type
style
bold

“PEPSI”

narrow

“get, to the”

italics

“ more bounce to the ounce”

All caps

“too hot cool off het Pepsi”
family
script
Approximating handwriting
“ more bounce to the ounce”

Sans serif
Without serif
No serif were used
legibility
font

“too hot cool off het Pepsi” and “get a big big bottle” are comic sans like more fun seeming. “ more bounce to the ounce” is cursive and draws your eyes to it when looking at it.

5 comments:

  1. Good data and elaborations. An argument I might suggest is that this family seems privileged considering they are spending time together and not working in the heat. Could coke coincide with higher class people and the activities they indulge in? Or could this add apply to anyone?

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  2. Overall good job. A few ideas: I would think about expanding on your analysis of the phrase "Too hot? Cool off! Get Pepsi!" This ad was probably before very many people had air conditioning. Was the bounce they are talking about just getting energy back by cooling off? (Remember the heat scene from "The Great Gatsby"?). Good catch on the horse's head on the inner tube. Is that there to remind people about all the great summertime horse racing? Was it just for fun or was it to imply the people in the ad have money?

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    1. Depending on the year, the horse head may also be saying that "Pepsi is an offer you can't refuse."

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  3. The suggested theme of this add is to survive the heat of the summer is by drinking Pepsi on a hot summer day.

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  4. Interesting Ad and great analysis of rhetorical devices. The catchy phrase "more ounce to the bounce", I think you could have analyzed this more. To me, I think "you drink Pepsi - you're instantly hip and have more energy, whereas when you drink Coke you don't.

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