POLITICAL CARTOON ANALYSIS

Question 1

What do political cartoons deal with

Answer 1

Deal with issues currently in the news and are visual editorials

Question 2

What does Political mean?

Answer 2

“Political” means that it’s concerned with public affairs.

Question 3

What is a cartoon?

Answer 3

“Cartoon” means a sketch that interests by portraying people, things events in an exaggerated way

Question 4

Caricature

Answer 4

Exaggerates one or more features of a person or thing and makes then easily recognizable

Question 5

Symbol

Answer 5

Represents something else; often a material that represents something abstract

Question 6

Captions

Answer 6

Cartoonists sometimes use words to help the viewer

Question 7

Stereotypes

Answer 7

Works by taking a real or imagined trait of an individual to be true of the group to which the individual belongs

Question 8

Bias

Answer 8

Cartoons can display a number of biases such as political, religious, racial, economic or gender biases

Question 9

Satire

Answer 9

Uses humor to lower something in the readers estimation

Question 10

Context

Answer 10

The set of circumstances or facts that surround a particular event

Question 11

Body language

Answer 11

Form of non verbal communication which consists of body posture, gestures, facial expressions and eye movements

Question 12

Facial expression

Answer 12

One or more motions of the muscles of the fsce; non verbal communication

Question 13

Techniques of cartooning

Answer 13

• Exaggeration
• Size
• Caricature
• Stereotyping
• Symbolism
• Comparing/contrasting