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Friday's Editorial Cartoon   —   Posted on December 1, 2017

Question(s)

1. Define the idiom “make light of”

2. Editorial cartoonists often use humor to make light of serious situations. How does the cartoonist take a lighthearted approach to a serious situation — which comic device does the cartoonist use to make light of a serious situation?
a) exaggeration
b) pun
c) parody
d) understatement


Cartoon by Dana Summers