Before we get onto more important things, lets quickly address compositional devices. There are rhetorical devices, and there are literary devices which if, or when, used in a persuasive way become rhetorical devices. There are some 100 literary devices, of those, perhaps 40 to 50 could be easy to document rhetorical devices that are not … Continue reading Painting Persuasive Phrases and the Role of Rhetoric in the Visual Arts