In a good cartoon, the artist can tell in a few lines as much as a writer can tell in half a dozen paragraphs. The cartoonist not only tells a story but he also tries to 1)______ the reader to his way of thinking. He has great 2)______ on public opinion. In a political 3)______, he plays an important part. Controversial 4)______ in Congress or at meetings of the United Nations may keep the cartoonist well-supplied with 5)______ materials. A clever cartoonist may cause laughter because he often uses 6)______ in his drawings. If he is sketching a famous person, he takes a prominent 7)______ and exaggerates it. Cartoonists, for instance, like to 8)______ an already long nose and to widen an already broad grin. This exaggeration of a person's 9)______ is called caricature. The artist uses such exaggeration to put his 10)______ across.