Difference between Caricature and Ape

What is the difference between Caricature and Ape?

Caricature as a verb is to represent someone in an exaggerated or distorted manner. while Ape as a verb is to imitate.

Caricature

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To represent someone in an exaggerated or distorted manner.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A pictorial representation of someone in which distinguishing features are exaggerated for comic effect. A grotesque misrepresentation.

Example sentence: I'm not going to become a costume version or caricature of myself; I like to morph.

Ape

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Wild; crazy.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An animal of a class of primates generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.An uncivilised person.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To imitate.

Example sentence: Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

We hope you now know whether to use Caricature or Ape in your sentence.

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