1. Mrs. Ramirez APE3 The Language of Composition
Visual Rhetoric
Mrs. Ramirez
APE3
The Language of Composition

2. Rhetorical Elements
Political Cartoons are often satiric, but they may also comment without any hint of sarcasm or criticism!
Same Considerations Apply:
Subject
Speaker
Audience
Appeals (may be all)

3. Pay Attention to
Images
Captions
Dialogue Bubbles

4. Rosa Parks Analysis

5. Background Information
Cartoonist: Tom Toles
He drew this after the death of civil-rights icon Rosa Parks in 2006.
Parks had refused to give up her seat on the bus in 1955, Montgomery, Alabama
This act came to symbolize the struggle for racial equality in the United States

6. Source
The Language of Composition
Shea, Scanlon, Aufses

7. Assignment
Using the Political Cartoon you chose for your homework assignment, analyze it in terms of the rhetorical elements:
Cartoonist- does he or she have any political/religious affiliations?
Subject
Audience (Intended Audience)
Purpose
Appeals: Ethos, Pathos, Logos
Considering all these elements, is your cartoon rhetorically effective? Explain why or why not.