Multimodality, Multisemiotics, and Multiliteracies

Multiliteracy is defined as the ability to absorb, understand, and interpret multiple types of media, such as images and motions. Multimodality is everywhere. Everything we encounter is a combination of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. McCloud uses multimodality in his work Understanding Comics. The words he writes are linguistic and somewhat audio when combined with the pictures. The pictoral portion of the comics offer the visual portion of the entire multimodal experience. The pictures also depict motion or gestures and offer a sense of space sometimes as well.