Blog 5A

Allie Winter
English 1010
Professor Marchant
September 28, 2015

        Some of the rhetorical gazes used for imagery in a paper are: familial, consumer, scholastic, national image, and sustainability. The familial views are ones that make the audience connect with a certain memory or time in their life. This could be flashbacks of a child being born or maybe a certain family vacation that sticks out. This helps the audience connect personally with the text from memories they had in their own lives. With this image below it appeals with emotion and it allows someone to have flashbacks to memories in their own lives.

          Another gaze I talked about earlier is a consumer gaze. This can appeal to people with buying stuff. With consumer stuff being about money, the images portrayed in society are most likely sales and good deals going on. When a person sees a sign with a sale on it they are automatically intrigued and want to know more details about it.

           Another gaze is the scholastic gaze which is the appeal to school related subjects. This could also kind of be related to familial views because it can take you back to a memory that you had in school. When I think of school I think of pencils and calculators. So that is an image that automatically takes me back to school when I see it.

 


         Another gaze is the national gaze. This one has a big appeal to emotions because a lot of the times it is portrayed in pictures of stuff that has gone wrong in the world. It can also be an appeal to patriotism though and can really influence a nation. The image below is an image of the American flag and when people see it they automatically think of the freedoms in which we have in the great land of America.
 

           The images that we see on a daily basis all have importance to us and when we see them they can take us back to memories we have had in our lives and they often can make us have emotional ties with the images. When you look at an image you automatically sense something and that is what these gazes are. They are the initial feelings we get when we see an image.