This document provides an introduction to analyzing political cartoons. It explains that cartoonists use symbols, exaggeration, labelling, analogy, and irony to convey their messages. Symbols stand for larger concepts, exaggeration emphasizes a point, labelling clarifies meanings, analogy allows complex issues to be compared to familiar topics, and irony highlights differences between expectations and realities. The document encourages analyzing cartoons for these techniques to understand the cartoonist's perspective.