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Element: DefineEvery text is made up of individual elements. Elements in a text might include specific words or phrases, colors, and individual images that are used—all of which audiences can read individually—to form an overall, cohesive meaning for the text. Although element doesn't seem much more specific than thing, it is the placement and relation of the elements in a text that offers meaning for the whole. This photograph can be split into individual elements: the road, the trash on the grass, the garbage can, the spray-painted words on the side of the can. Click the thumbnails below the photograph to examine them more closely. Each of these elements can be broken down and categorized to add up to one ironic whole. |
