Question

This World War II poster was designed to encourage Americans to avoid sharing information that could hurt the war effort. Analyze the types of appeal used in the poster. Use your findings and examples from the poster to explain whether this is an argument or persuasion. Answer in a minimum of three complete sentences. (15 points)

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Answer 1

While you're uploading the image that goes with this question, I can share some things I know about WWII propaganda.
These kinds of posters might make appeals to people's sense of responsibility (we must all play our part to succeed in the war); they might appeal to people's sense of guilt (it is morally wrong to do things this way, so don't do things this way); they might appeal to personal ties (your son/brother/father/etc is fighting in the war, so do this for them); they might appeal to people's patriotism (our country is much better than those countries, so we can't afford to lose the war)...
Just a few examples there. Of course, it's hard to say anything for certain without the image! :)

Answer 2

Nice!
We could talk about the imagery of the lips as a lock with a key, but as for the appeal(s) being used, I think it's pretty telling that the poster caption says "a key to victory", which highlights the importance of following that instruction

Answer 3

I don't suppose there are specific types of appeal you've been discussing in class? That might give us some idea of what kind of answer we could give to this question

Answer 4

If not, that's fine too. We'll just go off of what we can see

Answer 5

My english teacher do not have class

Answer 6

Huh, that's kind of unfortunate, but we can still work with the poster itself

Answer 7

So, like I already mentioned, the "key to victory" phrase goes along with the image in the poster and also emphasizes the importance of keeping secrets. As for what appeal that represents, I guess you could call that an appeal to responsibility?
This may be a bit of a stretch, but the hand holding the key could be interpreted as the "enemy" stealing secrets and taking away the "key to victory"? If we go with that, then maybe that could be an appeal to... paranoia? In the sense that "I don't know who to trust with these secrets, so I shouldn't tell anyone"?

Answer 8

nah you good

Answer 9

Alternatively, we could interpret the hand as a friendly figure, in which case that could be another appeal to responsibility? Like, if you're trusted by someone with something so important as the "key to victory", maybe you're more likely to take that duty seriously

Answer 10

So, I guess that's a few directions you could go with this question. I wish there were something we could say about the lock-lips in the image, but nothing really comes to mind. Maybe a sense of empowerment, like letting the viewer feel that their lips are really as strong as an iron lock? Again, a bit of a stretch, that one