Visuals invite analysis both of their key components and their rhetorical context. As we “read” a visual, therefore, we should ask ourselves a series of questions: What image does the visual portray?...

Visuals invite analysis both of their key components and their rhetorical context. As we “read” a visual, therefore, we should ask ourselves a series of questions: What image does the visual portray? Who created it? What audience is it addressing? What is it trying to get this audience to think and feel about the subject? How does it attempt to achieve this purpose?