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Visual Rhetoric Analysis

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A visual rhetoric is a recent development of a framework of describing how visual images communicate. Visual literacy is the ability to interpret the meaning from information presented in a form of art. Using these two things, I was able to analysis Thompkins H. Matteson’s painting, “Examination of a Witch.” Matteson’s purpose behind the, “Examination of a Witch” painting, was to represent an event that happen in John Greenleaf Whittier’s book, Supernaturalism. This painting is over a Salem White Trial, the priest are examining a young lady’s back to see if there are any signs of a “devil marking.” Matteson's intended audience was anyone who did not live through the Salem Witch Trials to show how that “diagnosed” someone as a witch. The emotion
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