Visual Rhetoric

In our day to day life we compose visual rhetoric constantly. Through forms of media such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and others visual rhetoric is posted all the time.  On these media pages pictures, captions, and videos are posted hourly by different people.  These forms of media have become a large part of the visual rhetoric that we see in our society on a daily basis.   Television is another prime example of visual rhetoric.  Television is used to convey news, sports, and entertainment to people everywhere.  People now days often turn to the television to find out what’s going on in the world compared to before where people had to read the paper.  Music is another form of visual rhetoric that has made its way into our society.  Music explains feelings and emotions and can be used to describe a certain situation.  Music, the internet, television, and other forms of visual rhetoric have become a very large part of our society.

This visual rhetoric is very useful but we have to be careful that we use it in moderation.  Visual rhetoric is an excellent tool to grab the attention of people and sometimes it can explain things better than words, but we should use it in moderation.  If we use to much visual rhetoric we will lose the basic ability to write and to communicate through word.  This kind of communication is more important than visual rhetoric so we need to make sure we don’t over use it.  We need to retain our skills with the written word.