Every day you come across commercials, flyers, movies, and
ads that have some kind of rhetorical impact. Ads seem to have the biggest
source of rhetorical impact out of most of the daily things you see. For example,
there was an ad for an energy drink on a billboard that showed an energetic man
walking in a crowd of sad looking people. It did not have any writing besides
the name of the drink but it was obvious about what the ad was trying to
portray. The ad was saying that if you drink their energy drink then you will
be like the guy in the ad. It was rhetorical in a sense because you knew what
the ad was saying without it having to be explained to you. Many movies can
also have a rhetorical impact without you even noticing. The impact is never
obvious but is there. In my opinion, the rhetorical impact could also kind of
be like the moral of the movie. For example, in the movie Rudy everyone
is always telling him that he will never be able to play, but he never gives up
and keeps on working towards his goal. The movie never says exactly that you
should never give up or keep pursuing your goal but it is implied. That’s where
the rhetorical impact comes in to play. Since the moral is implied it is in a
sense rhetorical to the audience. Everywhere that you look you can find
rhetorical devices and rhetorical meanings in everything. From the billboards
you pass every day on the way to school or work to the movies that you watch
you will find they contain some sort of rhetorical device. You just have to
open your eyes and look for them and you will find them.
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