Context
What is the term for the time, place and situation surrounding a cartoon?
What is context
What do we call the people a cartoon is created for?
What is audience?
What is the main reason a text is created called?
What is purpose?
What do we call the way a cartoonist puts visual and written elements together?
What is construction?
What technique makes a person's features larger or more extreme than normal?
What is exaggeration?
What current event might help a viewer understand a political cartoon?
What is a current event/news story?
Where might you find a political cartoon?
What is a newspaper, news website or social media platform?
What is one common purpose of a satirical cartoon?
What is to entertain, comment on, criticise or raise awareness about an issue?
Name one visual technique used in a satirical cartoon.
What is symbolism, exaggeration, caricature, contrast, labelling, positioning, gaze, body language or setting?
What technique uses an object to represent an idea?
What is symbolism?
Why is knowing when a cartoon was created important?
What is context helps explain the cartoon's meaning and references?
Why might a cartoon use humour when communicating with its audience?
What is humour can attract attention and make an issue easier to engage with?
How can humour help a cartoonist communicate a message?
What is humour can make the message memorable and expose something the cartoonist considers ridiculous or contradictory?
What is symbolism?
What is using an object, image or colour to represent a bigger idea?
What is caricature?
What is an exaggerated drawing of a person that highlights certain features for effect?
How might a cartoon about an election be different from one about climate-change?
What is the topic, issues and events in the context would be different?
What is using familiar events, people, symbols, language and cultural references?
What does a cartoonist want the audience to think about?
What is the issue, behaviour, decision or person being presented in the cartoon?
Why might a cartoonist exaggerate a person's physical features?
What is to emphasise a characteristic and make the person recognisable or humorous?
What technique places two contrasting things together?
What is contrast?
What is the new law, the politicians involved, the public debate and the events suroounding the law?
A cartoon appears in a newspaper read mainly by Australian adults. How might this influence its construction?
What is the cartoonist might use Australian political figures, familiar events, Australian symbols and references that the audience understands?
A cartoon makes a politician look foolish. What might the cartoonist be trying to encourage the audience to do?
What is to question or reconsider the politician's actions, decisions or behaviour?
How does the combination of image and text help construct meaning?
What is the image can communicate ideas visually while text can clarify, reinforce or add another layer of meaning?
A politician is drawn with enormous ears. What technique is being used and what might it suggest?
What is exaggeration/caricature, possibly suggestion that the politician listens too much, hears everything or is being mocked for a particular characteristic.