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Puppies! Puppies! Puppies! (Joel K Clements)

June 2, 2023

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In rhetoric, there is something called “affect transfer.” Usually used in visual composition, it’s when you generate an emotional response, and then immediately put it with something to which you’d like people to connect the emotion. In writing, it’s a simple matter of sentence structure. Visually, we tend to be drawn to the center of […]

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