In tonal Western classical music (music with a tonic key or "home key"), the most frequently encountered chords are triads, so called because they consist of three distinct notes: the root note, and intervals of a third and a fifth above the root note. ... A series of chords is called a chord progression
Let's break it down. The first part, Visual, is what you see when you look at something, color, arrangement, font, etc... The rhetoric part deals with the persuasion. In conclusion, it's what we see and how we act or think when we see it. It is one's ability to understand what an image is attempting to communicate.