Exam 9: Art As Persuasion: Visual Rhetoric

To qualify as visual rhetoric, Foss said there had to be human intervention and an intention to communicate.

Many dramas or movies present music as a powerful message to the spirit of humans.

Art with a message is a new phenomenon.

According to Sonja Foss, an oak tree or an evergreen tree is an example of visual rhetoric.

Lin's design for the Vietnam Memorial was completed in:

Gangsta Rap is characterized by misogynistic lyrics, sexual promiscuity, drugs, and violence.

The musical genre Gangsta Rap has been criticized for which of the following?

Brokeback Mountain was compared by critics to which of the following classic plays?

Foss stated that visual rhetoric is also the perspective that rhetorical scholars take to evaluate it. Which of the following is part of the rhetorical perspective?

Al-Qaeda websites listed the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which published the cartoons, as a possible terrorist target with which of the following visuals?

The 12 cartoons that the Denmark paper published about the prophet Muhammad set off death threats against the cartoonist and editor.

The guidelines for the Vietnam Memorial included the ability to make a political statement.

Mental illness has been depicted in various movies through the years. What was the mental illness that Rain Man depicted?

Brokeback Mountain used a conventional medium, film, that told an unconventional story that portrayed:

Kostelnick and Hassett stated that conventions invite adaptation and improvisation.