Caricature

**Definition:** Work portraying in a critical or facetious way a real individual or group, or a figure representing a social, political, ethnic, or racial type. The effect is usually achieved through distortion or exaggeration of characteristics. (Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collection Cataloguing, 2d ed)

**Tree numbers:** - V01.185.500 - V02.700.074

**Synonyms:** - Caricatures