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Balance: Symmetry
“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”
--John F. Kennedy
A scale with equal weights on both sides.
Description: “A Picture is worth a Thousand Words”
General Store, Moundville, Alabama, by Walker Evans, 1936
Emphasis
Some of the ways writers create emphasis:• Headings• Boxes• Typesizes• Boldface and italic• Sentence structure• Placement: beginning or end of book,
chapter, paragraph, etc.
Pattern
We recognize certain kinds of writing by the patterns they follow. This is also called genre or generic conventions. For example, we depend on certain patterns to read a newspaper:
• the comics
• classified ads
• stock market report, etc.
Pattern
It is not just an optical pattern, it is also one way to see the world – simultaneously as parts and a whole.
Proportion
Used primarily in design. In writing, when we pick up an old book and find a paragraph that runs for several pages, our modern sense of proportion tells us the paragraph is too long.
Acknowledgement
This powerpoint is based on the textbook:
Picturing Texts, ed. Faigley, Lester, Diana George, Anna Palchik, and Cynthia Selfe.
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2004.
So the point is…
We use much of the same terminology in talking about visual and verbal texts.
These are some terms you can use to analyze pictures.