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 28, 2019

Yucca-dew Shampoo



Consonance
There is consonance in the main body of the text in several places. Examples are “dry desert” and “Through Summer sun and Winter wind”. This could be used to make the ad more phonetically pleasing.
Asyndeton
Asyndeton can be found in the main body of the text. For example, in the third paragraph, it reads “It cleans so beautifully, there are never chemical residues to cause that dull, lifeless look." I think this is being used to help develop a certain style of speaking for the woman in the advertisement.
Anticlimax
There is part of the main body that states “The texture comes out softer, fuller… and there’s a lingering fragrance pure as morning air.” I think this is used to highlight all the positive aspects of using the shampoo, with the focus on the texture of the hair. The part about the fragrance isn’t as pertinent as it doesn’t relate to the texture, so it’s anticlimactic.
Simile
The statement that “… there’s a lingering fragrance pure as morning air” is a simile. This compares the fragrance provided by the shampoo to the air in the morning, which is meant to carry a positive connotation and get people to believe that the shampoo smells nice.
Hyperbole
In the ad, it mentions a “healthy look that everyone loves”. Surely not everyone loves that look, so it is a hyperbole. This is used to exaggerate the positive effects of using the shampoo in that it says that using will make everyone love your look.
Hue
The colors used in the ad are mostly dark, earthy colors like brown, green  and tan. This is used to portray the ad as something that ties into to nature.
Flat
The ad itself is flat and contains no illusion of depth. This, I believe, is in order to keep the ad both simple and visually easy to comprehend.
Grounding
The image of the woman contains a form of grounding, as it has a foreground and a background. The woman is in the foreground with a mural or painting of cacti in the background. This is to allow the viewer to associate the woman and cactus. This could be used to portray that the woman is in touch with nature.
Eye level
The woman in the ad is eye level with the reader. This could be used to convey a sense that the woman is speaking directly to the viewer.
Medium shots
The woman in the image is shown from the torso up. I believe this is used in this ad to show the length of her hair without any unnecessary detail.
Abstraction
All the presented images are real, save for the cactus in the background of the large image. I think this is important when trying to advertise for hair care products.
Bold
The header of the ad is bolded, as it is supposed to call attention to the ad and provide the basic premise of the ad.
Sans Serif
All of the text in the ad is sans serif. I believe this is intended to keep the text from becoming compact and hard to read. This helps to keep the individual letters in the words distinguishable from each other.

2 comments:

  1. Based on the information you posted and the overall picture of the ad, an argument I think you could make involves how people are constantly driven by greed to do things in life. I say this because this American Indian happily gave up the secret to her hair and helped commercialize it into a product to be sold. She sold out a secret passed down through generations in order to reap the profit within reach for her.

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  2. Looking at this ad and the information that you provided, I believe an argument you might consider could be the fact that even though they tried to show diversity by having the face of the ad as a beautiful American Indian, it is still targeted towards only white women with the typically straight long hair. The ad doesn’t contain any consideration or information about other hair types that may be curly or course.

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