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Political Cartoons: Serious Fun

Discover the power of political cartoons, where satire and humor are used to critique and challenge. Explore caricature, symbolism, metaphor, irony, sarcasm, and stereotypes in these visual commentaries. Join the conversation!

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Political Cartoons: Serious Fun

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  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.

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