Political Cartoon Inquiry

Text A:

People: What kinds of people are in the image? What are they doing, literally?

Objects: What physical items are included in the image? What could these stand for or
symbolize?

Artist's technique: To what degree is the artist's style abstract, iconic or realistic? Is there
use of caricatures, exaggerated features, symbols? Visual metaphors or analogies?

Humor technique: Ironic, parody, satire, exaggeration and caricature, understatement, pun,
black humor, juxtaposition, analogy, allusion?

Caption: What devices are present in the cartoon’s caption? Unique choices in diction,
syntax, tone, and mood?

Debatable issue: What is the contentious or controversial issue that the cartoon comments
on?

Artist’s perspective: What is the artist’s perspective on the issue? How could that
perspective be reflective of or influenced by an underlying ideology?
Text B:

People: What kinds of people are in the image? What are they doing, literally?

Objects: What physical items are included in the image? What could these stand for or
symbolize?

Artist's technique: To what degree is the artist's style abstract, iconic or realistic? Is there
use of caricatures, exaggerated features, symbols? Visual metaphors or analogies?

Humor technique: Ironic, parody, satire, exaggeration and caricature, understatement, pun,
black humor, juxtaposition, analogy, allusion?

Caption: What devices are present in the cartoon’s caption? Unique choices in diction,
syntax, tone, and mood?

Debatable issue: What is the contentious or controversial issue that the cartoon comments
on?
Artist’s perspective: What is the artist’s perspective on the issue? How could that
perspective be reflective of or influenced by an underlying ideology?

Text C:

People: What kinds of people are in the image? What are they doing, literally?

Objects: What physical items are included in the image? What could these stand for or
symbolize?

Artist's technique: To what degree is the artist's style abstract, iconic or realistic? Is there
use of caricatures, exaggerated features, symbols? Visual metaphors or analogies?

Humor technique: Ironic, parody, satire, exaggeration and caricature, understatement, pun,
black humor, juxtaposition, analogy, allusion?

Caption: What devices are present in the cartoon’s caption? Unique choices in diction,
syntax, tone, and mood?
Debatable issue: What is the contentious or controversial issue that the cartoon comments
on?

Artist’s perspective: What is the artist’s perspective on the issue? How could that
perspective be reflective of or influenced by an underlying ideology?

Text D:

People: What kinds of people are in the image? What are they doing, literally?

Objects: What physical items are included in the image? What could these stand for or
symbolize?

Artist's technique: To what degree is the artist's style abstract, iconic or realistic? Is there
use of caricatures, exaggerated features, symbols? Visual metaphors or analogies?

Humor technique: Ironic, parody, satire, exaggeration and caricature, understatement, pun,
black humor, juxtaposition, analogy, allusion?

Caption: What devices are present in the cartoon’s caption? Unique choices in diction,
 syntax, tone, and mood?

Debatable issue: What is the contentious or controversial issue that the cartoon comments
on?

Artist’s perspective: What is the artist’s perspective on the issue? How could that
perspective be reflective of or influenced by an underlying ideology?

Text E:

People: What kinds of people are in the image? What are they doing, literally?

Objects: What physical items are included in the image? What could these stand for or
symbolize?

Artist's technique: To what degree is the artist's style abstract, iconic or realistic? Is there
use of caricatures, exaggerated features, symbols? Visual metaphors or analogies?

Humor technique: Ironic, parody, satire, exaggeration and caricature, understatement, pun,
black humor, juxtaposition, analogy, allusion?
Caption: What devices are present in the cartoon’s caption? Unique choices in diction,
syntax, tone, and mood?

Debatable issue: What is the contentious or controversial issue that the cartoon comments
on?

Artist’s perspective: What is the artist’s perspective on the issue? How could that
perspective be reflective of or influenced by an underlying ideology?