Analyzing Satire in Editorial Cartoons — Unit test Answers
Which is the best definition of satire?
Read the excerpt from "The Storyteller."In a low, confidential voice, interrupted at frequent intervals by loud, petulant questionings from her listeners, she began an unenterprising and deplorably uninteresting story about a little girl who was good, and made friends with every one on account of her goodness, and was finally saved from a mad bull by a number of rescuers who admired her moral character."Wouldn’t they have saved her if she hadn’t been good?” demanded the bigger of the small girls. It was exactly the question that the bachelor had wanted to ask."Well, yes,” admitted the aunt lamely, "but I don’t think they would have run quite so fast to her help if they had not liked her so much.”
Read the excerpt from Persepolis.
What similarities do the narrators’ perspectives most reveal? Select two options.
Read the excerpt from "The Storyteller.""She did all that she was told, she was always truthful, she kept her clothes clean, ate milk puddings as though they were jam tarts, learned her lessons perfectly, and was polite in her manners.”"Was she pretty?” asked the bigger of the small girls."Not as pretty as any of you,” said the bachelor, "but she was horribly good.”There was a wave of reaction in favour of the story; the word horrible in connection with goodness was a novelty that commended itself. It seemed to introduce a ring of truth that was absent from the aunt’s tales of infant life.
Which group is most likely planning to participate in a formal discussion?
What do the tone and perspective of these excerpts reveal about the narrators’ attitudes toward being different? Select three options.
What evidence supports the cartoonist’s perspective about declining participation in little league? Select two options.
Study the editorial cartoon Join, or Die by Benjamin Franklin.
Study the editorial cartoon Join, or Die, created by Benjamin Franklin in 1754.
Read Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130.”My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;Coral is far more red, than her lips red:If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,5But no such roses see I in her cheeks;And in some perfumes is there more delightThan in the breath that from my mistress reeks.I love to hear her speak, yet well I knowThat music hath a far more pleasing sound:10I grant I never saw a goddess go,—My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare,As any she belied with false compare.
Read the scenario about a formal discussion.A neighborhood watch association is having a discussion about installing street lamps around the perimeter of a playground. The discussion moves on to cost, and the head of the association asks if anyone has had the chance to research pricing. Simone comments that installing street lamps around a playground that closes after dark is a waste of money. Tatiana presents some information about the city’s rising crime rates. Brandon shares pricing information about some energy-efficient sodium lamps and suggests a neighborhood development grant they can apply for to cover the costs. Char asks Juana if she ever repaired her fence, and Juana responds by telling her how much the repair cost.
Read the scenario about a formal discussion.Mrs. Park’s biology class is discussing the components of healthy garden soil. One student mentions that her community garden has a compost pile and that members of the garden can use the compost for free. She says that she uses the compost now and has found it to be much more effective than fertilizers sold at the store.
Read the excerpts from Does My Head Look Big in This? and Persepolis.Excerpt from Does My Head Look Big in This?:My best friends, Leila Okulgen and Yasmeen Khan, moved on to a public high school close to Coburg, where they live. I begged my parents to let me go with them but Mom and Dad insisted that I go to a private school. I tried everything. At first I sucked up to them big time, making them coffee after dinner, offering to set the table before Mom had a chance to ask me, letting them watch PBS documentaries when I wanted to watch Big Brother. That didn’t work. So I turned political, ranting about them perpetuating the snobby bourgeoisie power trip of our educational system which forges aristocratic divisions between social classes (I got that from a PBS documentary). Talk about having no compassion or social conscience. They just laughed at me and gave me a pile of literature about the school.Excerpt from Persepolis:
Which ideas do the people in the cartoon represent? Select two options.
What is a couplet, in the context of a Shakespearean sonnet?
Study the editorial cartoon Mars Probe by Mike Keefe.
What theme is best supported by the story the bachelor tells in "The Storyteller”?
Read the excerpt from "The Storyteller.""Why weren't there any flowers?”"Because the pigs had eaten them all,” said the bachelor promptly. "The gardeners had told the Prince that you couldn't have pigs and flowers, so he decided to have pigs and no flowers.”There was a murmur of approval at the excellence of the Prince's decision; so many people would have decided the other way.
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