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Political Cartoons: Serious Fun “I don’t mind what people write about me. Most of my constituents can’t read. But oh, those damn pictures!” ----Boss Tweed

What are political cartoons? Satire: Using humor to lower something or someone in the reader’s estimation.

Types of Satire Caricature: Works by suggestion and exaggeration, usually by exaggerating one feature of a person or thing.

Symbol: Represents something else (Ex: Dove represents peace.)

Metaphor: Uses an object to note a similarity to something else.

Irony: Expresses an idea through a contradiction between something’s literal meaning and the intended meaning.

Sarcasm: A form of irony with the appearance of mockery, or bitterness.

Stereotypes: Take a real or imagined trait of an individual to be true of the group to which they belong.