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Old Spice Rhetorical Analysis

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“Anything is possible when your man smells like Old Spice and not like a lady”. This is the slogan Old Spice strives to convey to their target audience. In today’s society, companies have become smarter with their advertisements. The marketing world has figured out how to make use of a multitude of rhetorical strategies and skills that effectively persuade their audience to purchase the product being advertised. Old Spice, a men’s beauty product, is notorious for producing commercial advertisements that are comedic in nature and that appeal to the emotions and desires of their audience. The Old Spice commercial, “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like”, effectively targets teenage to middle aged men with its use of rhetorical strategies such as

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