1. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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