The aim of the article is to systematize knowledge about teaser advertising as an advertisement that intrigues, influences the sensory perception of recipients and is an important tool in visual communication. The specificity of teaser advertising was discussed on selected examples of Polish advertisements. In the visual layer of the researched advertisements were used the interpretative methods proposed by Gillian Rose. The functions of the language used in the empirical material were analyzed taking into account the typology of language functions by Roman Jakobson.