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Rhetorical Analysis Of Advertisements

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Make Girls go crazy with Deodorant
There are many products that are not from the same manufacturer competing against one another for gross and income. An example would be deodorant. Two of the most popular and used deodorants would be Old Spice and AXE. AXE targets their main consumer base of young men 18 to 24 years old. Old spice on the other hand usually target toward an older audience of men. Though the two different brands of deodorant target different audience, they both contain sexual imagery to appeal to the crowd.
AXE appeals to the younger crowd by seemingly to proclaim ‘use AXE and you could get girls and smell good even though you are a nerd or a geek’. AXE’s advertisement was of a cool, half-naked, fit, tattooed, hip and white athlete, next to a half naked beautiful girl staring intently at the male. The athlete was Ryan Sheckler, a professional, 3x gold medalist in the X-Games, skateboarder. The advertisement shows ethos, as they have chosen a famous athlete who is well respected by the audience of younger men. Choosing Ryan Sheckler, it portrays all the good looking; super …show more content…

Sexual imagery has become a trend in the business of advertisement, which has become extremely efficient. Tom Reichert in “The Prevalence of Sexual Imagery in Ads Target to Young Adults,” states in his journal, “To determine if advertisers use sexual imagery to appeal to youth, 2,863 ads in magazines read by young and mature adults were compared. Results indicate that ads targeted to young adults were 65% more likely to contain provocatively dressed models and 128% more likely to contain sexual behavior than those for mature adults. In the ads young adults, female models were 3.7 times more likely to be portrayed sexually than were male models. The findings suggest that advertisers use sexual imagery, primarily by means of female modes, to appeal to young audiences.”

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