A cartoon shows a farmer bent under a huge sack of rice while a small man in a suit sits on top of the sack, smiling. What does the drawing argue?

A cartoon draws a city official with a mouth wider than his whole head, while a tiny crowd stands in front of him holding folded papers. What does the exaggerated mouth push the reader to think?

A sketch shows one factory pipe pouring into a river and one fish floating upside down beside it. The caption calls the factory the cause of the fish kill. What does this simplification leave the reader without?

A cartoon shows a fishing hook lowered into a dark sea, and the bait on the hook is a glowing phone. What does the bait symbolize?

A cartoon draws a bus so crowded that riders hang from the windows and roof, and the wheels are squashed flat under the load. What is the exaggeration for?

A sketch shows a heavy storm as one small cloud sitting over one house, with clear sky everywhere else. What does the reader lose because of this simplification?

A cartoon shows two doors into the same building: a wide one with a red carpet and no line, and a narrow one with a line stretching off the page. What does it argue?

A cartoon draws a teacher with eight arms: one writes on the board, one marks papers, one holds a phone, one sweeps, one carries a child's bag. What is the exaggeration for?

A sketch shows a tree whose roots are drawn as water pipes, and every pipe ends at a tap that is dry. What does the drawing symbolize?

A cartoon shows a giant hand holding scissors above the single rope a climber is hanging from, halfway up a cliff. What do the scissors stand for?

A cartoon shows a wide umbrella shaped like a coin. Three people in fine clothes stand dry beneath it, while a crowd stands in heavy rain just outside its edge. What does it argue?

A sketch shows heavy traffic as one long snake lying across a single road, blocking it. What does the reader lose because of this simplification?

A cartoon draws a school test as a locked gate across a road, with a line of small pupils standing in front of it and open fields beyond. What does the gate symbolize?

A cartoon draws a mayor's nose stretching across three city blocks while he stands at a microphone. What is the exaggeration for?

A sketch shows a whole harvest season as one farmer, one field and one full basket, under the words "a good year." What does this simplification leave out?

A cartoon shows a small boat with two rowers pulling in opposite directions while water pours in through a hole nobody is watching. What does it argue?

A cartoon draws a shopper's grocery bag as a thimble, while the coins she hands over fill a wheelbarrow. What is the exaggeration for?

A sketch shows a river's health as one smiling fish and one frowning fish side by side, and the caption says the river is "half clean." What does the reader lose?

A cartoon that stretches one feature of a person, such as a huge mouth or a long nose, is making a claim about that person rather than recording how the person looks.

A sketch shows a family's whole month of spending as one plate of rice and one coin. What does the drawing gain, and what does it cost the reader?