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"The Power of Advertising." Explore the Nature, Purpose and Effectiveness of Rhetoric as Used in Some Adverts of Your Choice

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"The power of advertising." Explore the nature, purpose and effectiveness of rhetoric as used in some adverts of your choice

Advertisements appear in various forms within the media such as television, radio, national press and magazines. This has resulted in advertising becoming a multi-billion dollar industry, with the most profitable agency network, Dentsu, making over $1.9 billion revenue in 2003 alone. Advertising is a competitive market so therefore it must be effective in ‘selling' whatever it offers to an audience frequently bombarded with an array of advertisements. This essay concentrates on the how the text within magazine advertisement uses rhetorical devices to gain the interest and captivation of the desired clientele. …show more content…

The first word helps reinforces this intended rhetoric as the connotation of the word "our" written in an un-capitalised, grey font. The rhetoric used represents Dove as a down-to-earth company of whom the reader can relate to on a more personal level. The effect of Dove appearing down-to earth makes the product appear to be intended for the ordinary woman rather than the rich or famous. A furthermore implication to strengthen the idea that Dove is for the ‘ordinary woman' is by the images within the advertisement. The models are to be perceived as ordinary women who have curvy, feminine figures but in addition, Dove chose to state that the women are ordinary women in ordinary jobs as an effective rhetoric device as it shows the intended customer that the product works to the ‘everyday' woman. The statement, "and we haven't cheated the figures" is debatably the most effective use of rhetoric within the advertisement. Dove has successfully used a double intendre as a consequence of the word ‘figures'. This word could either represent the findings as a consequence of the survey completed, or it could represent the models within the advertisement. Humour is a successful element of rhetoric as it portrays the ‘grounded'

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