Political cartoon.
One way cartoonists - See also: List of comic strips.
Notable cartoonists
Notable cartoonists include: - Richard decker, under-recognized The New Yorker master
- Charles Addams, macabre cartoons featured in The New Yorker and elsewhere
express an idea is through personification personification, figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstract ideas are endowed with human qualities, e.g., allegorical morality plays where characters include Good Deeds, Beauty, and Death. . That is the representation of animals or things as humans, or giving them human qualities. Read "Pluto Gets the Booto!" on p. 4. Then study this cartoon cartoon [Ital., cartone=paper], either of two types of drawings: in the fine arts, a preliminary sketch for a more complete work; in journalism, a humorous or satirical drawing. , and answer the questions below.
1. On which news event is the cartoonist commenting?--
2. Who or what is sitting at the large table at left? Why?--
3. Why isn't Pluto with them?--
4. How does Pluto "feel" about where it is?--
5. What in this cartoon shows the cartoonist's use of personification? --
ANSWERS
1. The vote by astronomers Famous astronomers and astrophysicists include:
Directory: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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- Marc Aaronson (USA, 1950 – 1987)
- George Ogden Abell (USA, 1927 – 1983)
(the International Astronomers Union) to remove Pluto from the planets category and call it a dwarf planet dwarf planet
Body, other than a natural satellite (moon), that orbits the Sun and that is, for practical purposes, smaller than the planet Mercury yet large enough for its own gravity to have rounded its shape substantially. .
2. The first eight (classical) planets. (Saturn has the rings, Mars is next to it, and Earth is facing Saturn.)
3. Partly because of its small size, Pluto has been demoted from a planet and placed in the same category as other smaller space bodies.
4. unhappy
5. planets sitting at dinner tables; Pluto thinking
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