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

Friday, January 27, 2017

What the heck is Electronic Mail?









Arrangement  Climax Ordered by increasing importance  “Have your messages delivered to their terminal mailboxes electronically, across the hall, or around the world.” 
Parallelism  Parallelism  Similarity in structure in phrases or clauses  “ Theres no mountain of paperwork. 
Administrative personal are more effective. 
Managers have access to more up to date information.
Decision making is easier. “
Comparison Metaphor  An implied comparison  “ Theres no mountain of paperwork.”
Exaggeration  Hyperbole  Using exaggerated terms for effect  “ Theres no mountain of paperwork.”
Question  Erotema  Asking a rhetorical question “What the heck is electronic mail?” 
“Need to notify people immediately of a fast breaking development?” 
Color  Hue  The identification of the colors  Mustard yellow, Brown, Grey, and Beige for the office. (normal, dull colors) 
White and yellow for the electricity. 

Value  The lightness or darkness of a color  Everything besides the electricity bolt is dark. 
Perspective Geometric  An illusion of depth and space They are obviously trying to make the illusion that this is a real scenario, therefore the scene is geometric rather than flat. 
Space  Closed  The tops and sides feels closed, trapped.  The picture doesn't show any other space in the room, and makes the image seem busy. 

Full The frame is dense with figures.  There is a lot of furniture that fill up the frame. Along with the bolt of electricity. 
Focus  Focalizers  Are figures or colors or spaces used to pull the eye across the image?  The lighting bolt not only draws your attention, but plus your eye to the small text. 
Angle  High Angle  Are we looking down on them?  Yes, almost like we are there at the office, witnessing this ourself. 
Implied distance  Medium Shots  Waist up?  Yes, you can only see him from the waist up.
Figures  Representationality  To what extent does the image show things we can identify? There are a lot of identifiable things, basically everything that is being shown is the average desk of the working man. They are trying to help other businessmen or women relate. 

Abstraction  How realistic are the things?  Very realistic 

Self- referentiality  Do the brushstrokes or lines call attention to themselves?  The electricity obviously calls attention to itself, and the pattern that its making drawn your eye to the smaller text. 
Style  Bold  X “Honeywell” is in bold. 

Condensed  X All of the other texts besides honeywell is somewhat thin. 
Family Serif  X "What the heck is electronic mail?"












4 comments:

  1. Great job! Excellent analysis of the rhetorical elements. I have only two suggestions, and they are not regarding rhetorical analysis:

    1. You put "theres" in the table for "theres no mountain of paperwork." Shouldn't it be "there's"?

    2. I found it a bit difficult to read the text on the right, above the Honeywell logo. If I may, I recommend that you try retaking the picture in Landscape (long side down) rather than Portrait (short side down). This should allow for easier readability and cut off the unnecessary white space without cropping your writing out.

    Otherwise, it is flawless. I could not have done it better myself. Remarkable!

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    1. Correction on number 2 - I meant to put "next time" at the end of sentence 2. It should read "...Portrait (short side down) next time."
      Again, great job.

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  2. It was quite "shocking" how well you covered everything. You could say I was "blown away". Anyway, I have nothing to add. Good job.

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  3. I like how you broke down how the man in the ad reacted to this "Electronic Mail," most will over look this but nonverbal cues shown can help add to understanding a given situation and how it may trigger certain age groups viewing this add. If you did not comment on this, I would of totally overlooked this at first but overall great job.

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