Authors write for many different reasons. Those reasons are called the author's purpose. An author’s purpose typically falls into one of three broad categories. Together, they spell the acronym PIE. What does PIE mean?

Study the editorial cartoon mars probe by mike keefe. how does the alien with the baseball bat contribute to the effectiveness of the political cartoon? it suggests that aliens are like people because they play baseball, a human sport. it uses humor to show that unknown factors keep damaging the probes humans send. it shows how to cope with the surface of mars, which is rocky and full of craters. it exaggerates the size of the bat in relation to the mars probe in the cartoon.