Rhetoric In Visual Culture

Rhetoric is used to convey one’s ideas to an audience through multiple different forms of expression. These different forms can be written, verbal and even visual. One form of visual rhetoric can be found by looking at all the different, unique masks that were created by members of the communication class. Each mask that was created was very creative and completely unique from everyone else’s mask. Each mask looked completely different from all the other mask’s, but each message behind the mask was also unique to each individual. The creation of these masks goes along with the idea of visual culture, meaning that a culture uses multiple different forms of visual aids to convey certain ideas, beliefs, or messages throughout society. The masks
The masks that we created are related to rhetoric display because they were a prop that really carried and set the stage for the whole mythic performance that was put on. Each person who was watching our performance was watching from different angles, which could have affected the way they experienced the performance. Seeing these different masks from different angles could mean that someone misses one aspect of a performance that other members of the audience could have been able to see. An example of this would be someone who was watching and only saw the half doll, half girl mask from one angle that only allowed them to see one of the halves. That could have caused some confusion for that member of the audience, since her mask is what really fueled the plot of our performance. Masks are what made the plot of our performance move along and are also what we used to identify and learn more about each of the characters. Presence is another use of rhetoric that the masks used in our performance. The masks were used to create visuals that the audience used to create opinions and learn more about the characters. They were key identifiers in our performance and had a direct affect on the audience and provided them with information about the character before they even spoke or