Identify the audience that the appeals are most likely to resonate with.

For your final assignment, you will use Roland Barthes’ methodology to analyze the rhetoric of an image in a piece of media and write a brief reflection explaining your analysis (300-500 words). You can choose any static media that is made up of an image and text, including web pages, memes, and advertisements. Please include a hyperlink to the image you choose to analyze, or paste a copy of it into you analysis.
NOTE: This is not a formal essay assignment. Think of it like a blog post. It’s not necessary to do full MLA citations and formatting for this project.

Step 1: Choose an image to analyze.
Step 2: Identify the three types of message in the image (literal, linguistic and symbolic)
Step 3: Isolate the connotators.
Step 4: Determine how the connotators work as rhetorical appeals.
Step 5: Identify the audience that the appeals are most likely to resonate with.
Structure for your analysis:
Follow the suggest organizational structure from the video to write your analysis:
Thesis statement: The purpose is to see how persuasion works by analyzing an image as visual rhetoric.
Point 1: Identify the connotators by walking through the three types of message (literal, linguistic and symbolic) in the image.
Point 2: Discuss how the connotators work as rhetorical appeals by identifying and explaining any emotions or ideas they evoke.
Point 3: Discuss how you determined who the rhetorical audience is based on who the rhetorical appeals most likely resonate with.
Conclusion: What did you learn about how this particular kind of visual rhetoric works with a specific audience? You can also add any additional research you might’ve done to confirm your analysis.

PLEASE
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_No advanced word
_No British
_No plagiarism
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