In this advertisement the target audience is men who work out and are into body building. It targets the appeal to achieve as the advertisement is about using a protein shake to build lean muscles. The advertisement includes motivational and dominating language which men tend to find more persuasive as they're the ones who most of the time want to feel strong and in charge. In addition, the advertisement includes a hyperbolic picture of a very muscular man dangling off a cliff with one hand drinking the shake. Next to him there's a clear sign saying "Milk for real men". That use of competitive language again emphasizes the target audience of men who work out. The advertisements uses Logos as it includes a lot of factual information on the bottom left of the image as well as on the bottom right. Pathos can also be identified as they used a strong muscular man hanging off a cliff which can evoke the feeling of envy and motivate a person to drink the shake so that they can be like the person in the advertisement.
Chapter Four Passage: "You made me and now you reject me: Your ideas create their embodiment in my person and then you simply change them, leaving me lost –rootless, worthless, without hope—a betrayal so vile that if the whole Muqattam hill toppled over and buried it, I still would not be satisfied. I wonder if you ever admit, even to yourself, that you betrayed me. Maybe you’ve deceived yourself as much as you try to deceive others. Hasn’t your conscience bothered you even in the dark? I wish I could penetrate your soul as easily as I’ve penetrated your house, that house of mirrors and object d’art, but I suppose I’d find nothing but betrayal there: Nabawiyya disguised as Rauf, Rauf disguised as Nabawiyya, or Ilish Sidra in place of both—and betrayal would cry out to me that it was the lowest crime on earth. Their eyes behind my back must have traded anxious looks throbbing with lust, which carried them in a current crawling like death, like a cat creeping on ...
Your Blog post addresses which audience the AD is targeted towards, and you have clearly and in detail written about how its affect of the target audience. You identify techniques such as pathos and logos but you could maybe go back into depth about the appeals such as it appeals to the need for men to dominate.
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