Visual Rhetorical Analysis

The poster I chose was the Anatomy of a Flower. It appeals to me because when I was younger and learning about the anatomy of a flower I remember it being really hard for me to memorize. The pictures used in the textbooks were always so boring with simple black text and lines to each part. The pictures I was learning were also broken up and not all together like the poster shown. It appeals to me because it shows the whole flower and describes the whole flower. The font is very pretty to look at and even the flower is beautiful even though its not a real one. The purpose of this poster is to make you aware of the different parts of a flower and teach you the names of each part. It also goes a little into detail about what happens in a leaf, what we can't see. The media and mode of this picture is digital and visual while also being text-based. You have to read and look at each part to correlate the two. The audience is anyone who may be interested in flowers, or know nothing about flowers. It is for anyone who is willing to learn the anatomy of a flower. The style and design of the picture is a little bohemian, the actual picture is rounded off and the font is curvy and hipster. The actual flower itself is also blunt and simple. The artist clearly didn't want to use hyperrealism for the flower and instead made it cute looking and abstract. The appeals used in this photo is ethos and pathos. Ethos because you believe the picture is correct therefore giving the author some credibility. Pathos is used because we see the picture and the way they are describing it, in a non-serious way, which makes us more open to learning it. It is easier to look at, and looks less like something out of a text book which is appealing.