Communication has always been at least partly a visual experience--insofar as the speaker's appearance on a stage or the text's appearance on the page. Certainly, however, the experience is becoming more and more visual. Thus, equipping students with the tools necessary to analyze and evaluate the visual rhetoric that surrounds everyone is a task that seems difficult for those in the field to ignore. This article describes an assignment suitable for the composition classroom that leads students to consider the complicated relationship between verbal and visual communication.