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

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

"Best Travel Bargain By Far TWA to California"

Visual
1) color

Low Contrast
Little Differences between darks and lights
two colors making it very neutral and practical. 

7) angle
High angle 
Low angle 
looking up
looking down 
We have two different angles of looking at things. The people in the left corner we are looking down on whereas the plane next to it we are looking up at making it feel as if its something we're not apart of but could be... 

8) implied distance
medium shots 

Is the subject people in interaction (are they waist up)?
the top left picture shows us looking into the plane and the rows of people within 

9) figures

abstraction

How realistic are the things?
The image is pretty realistic excluding the little dollar people 
Type
3) style

Bold
Italic

The Title "best travel bargain by far..." is bold and italic drawing attention to it 


All caps?

again the title is also all in caps because saving money is really trying to be pushed 

6) emphasis
Underlining


the word everyone is unlined to draw attention to how this isn't just something the wealthy could afford

7) family
sans serif
serif


no lines 
lines
The bold shorter text you can quickly read from far away to get the message across. 
the larger passage includes more details is smaller text and has the lines 
Tropes
1) Comparison

simile 

“Time is money" 

5) exaggeration


the fact of getting to save time AND money is very exaggerated as if its the only important thing
Schemes
1) orthography
acronym

abbreviations 

TWA- "trans world airlines"

7) Arrangement 
climax 
ordered by increasing importance.
the paragraph of small text is listing thing after thing making other travel options sound very expensive 

2 comments:

  1. I agree that the main message here is that now everyone can afford to fly. They are not really bias toward any one gender in this ad but, it is directed toward the middle working class. During this time women were not really working but still living at home while their husbands were out on business trips. This is not a luxurious plane ride and it does not create the sense of vacation but strictly business. They do attempt to create an image that is equal for men and women but realistically there would be much more males on board than females especially for it being geared towards work.

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  2. I feel like the ad is giving false advertisement because it is saying that TWA can go to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Kansas City, St Louis, and Pittsburgh, when if you look where it says, "Regular schedules know when you leave and when you arrive…”, you can see that only three places were scheduled with leaving and arrival times, and the other three weren't.

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