1. Political Cartoons
Illustrations or comic strips containing a political or social message that relates to current events

2. Satire
Uses humor to lower something or someone in the reader’s or viewer’s estimation. It is not mean spirited and its point is not to harm. It exposes human folly to make room for improvement.

3. Carlos Latuff [Copyrighted free use], via Wikimedia Commons

4. Caricature
Exaggerates one or more features of a person or thing. It attempts to say something about the person or thing’s character, beliefs, actions or significance.

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6. Symbolism
Represents something else by using an object to stand for an idea.
Peace-dove
United States-Uncle Sam, Eagle, Stars and stripes
Democrats-donkey
Republicans-elephant

7. Notes
Note: Central Press Association, reprinted in The American Monthly Review of Reviews, May 1919, p.463
Creator
Bushnell, E.A., d. 1939
Bushnell, E.A., Central Press Association, reprinted in The American Monthly Review of Reviews, May 1919, p.463
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8. Metaphor
Uses an object to note a similarity to something else. For example, using a tiger to represent one nation.

9. By Carlos Latuff (http://sf. indymedia. org/news/2002/12/1555478
By Carlos Latuff ( [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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

11. By Rafaela Tasca and Carlos Latuff (http://www. indymedia. org
By Rafaela Tasca and Carlos Latuff ( [FAL], via Wikimedia Commons

12. Sarcasm
A form of irony. The element that turns irony into sarcasm is the appearance of mockery, or bitterness.

13. By Courtesy of the Center of Military History [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

14. Stereotypes
Works by taking a real or imagined trait of an individual to be true of the group to which the individual belongs. They express bias and can be unfair and harmful.

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16. Analogy
Is a comparison between two unlike things that share some characteristics. By comparing a complex issue or situation with a more familiar one.

17. Carlos Latuff [Copyrighted free use or Copyrighted free use], via Wikimedia Commons.

18. Labeling
Labels objects or people to make it clear what they stand for.

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