Body language can tell a lot about a person. While some people are brutally honest, in most cases people hide their true feelings. We can't know a person's true feelings from their words alone because they are able to craft them and to deceive with them. But when we observe a person's body language we can discern many of their thoughts. When a person is bored or they dislike something, they tend to lean away from the speaker, gaze around the room, and have their arms folded. They aren't open to the conversation. But when a person is entertained or pleased with the speaker, they lean closer in, maintain eye contact, and have a more open position towards them. We can also use our own body language to show others what we want them to know. This is just one of the ways visual rhetoric is used in our lives each day.
The other way we use visual rhetoric daily is by the way we're persuaded. Advertisements we see on the television, on the computer, and around the places we go each day have been made carefully to persuade us. The styles and effects used to create the ad are there to please the eye and make us more likely to buy the product. This is also used in fliers that we see around campus. They have been made to make us want to go to the event. Using the definition C.R.A.P. (color, repetition, alignment, and proximity) for the design, the ads are much more effective at persuading us.
I think that visual rhetoric is a very useful technique to know, whether it be for deciphering others thoughts, making your own thoughts known, or persuading people visual rhetoric is a great method to use. It's very important to also be aware of it, and how people use it on you. That way we can be less likely to be persuaded by the pretty design of some ad and instead decide for ourselves what we need or want. Being aware of the visual rhetoric that is used in our lives is a simple, yet effective, way to to convince someone, and I think everyone should come to this knowledge.
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