1. TEACHER: ANAYANSI SANTAMARÍA
JABBERWOCKY
TEACHER: ANAYANSI SANTAMARÍA

2. BACKGROUND OF THE AUTHOR
HIS REAL NAME WAS CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON
HE USED TO WRITE STORIES AND POEMS TO ENTERTAIN HIS SIBLINGS,
HE MADE UP THE STORY OF “ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND” ONE DAY DURING A PICNIC WITH THE YOUNG DAUGHTERS OF HIS FRIEND HENRY LIDELL.
AFTER THE SUCCESS OF THE FIRST BOOK HE WROTE A SEQUEL CALLED “THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE”
HE WAS A UNIVERSITY LECTURER WHO PUBLISHED MANY PAPERS ON MATHEMATICS.

3. WHEN DOES NONSENSE MAKE SENSE?
PAIR WITH A PARTNER.
DISCUSS WITH EACH OTHER “WHEN DOES NONSENSE MAKE SENSE?”
SHARE YOUR IDEAS AND DO SOME BRAINSTORMING. WRITE THEM DOWN IN YOUR BINDERS OR NOTEBOOKS.

4. HUMOROUS POETRY
Humorous poetry is written to make you laugh. To achieve a comic effect, poets often will use exaggeration, or hyperbole, that is, they describe things as much worse, better, smaller, or bigger tan they actually are.
Sometimes, the comic effects comes from elements of fantasy that créate a weird or mixed-up world.
One famous example is a Limerick, a five-line poem characterized by a singsong rhythm.

5. JABBERWOCKY
AS YOU READ THIS HUMOROUS POEM, PAUSE REGULARLY TO CHECK, OR MONITOR HOW WELL YOU ARE UNDERSTANDING THE POEM.
LINES FROM THE POEM
MY NOTES
“Twas brillig, and the slity tores” (line 1)
“Brillig” might describe a time of day or the weather.
“Slithy” reminds me of “slimy”
“Toves” sounds like “toads.”

6. JABBERWOCKY BY LEWIS CARROLL
“Twas brillig, and the slity toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.” “Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!”
How is the Jabberwocky described in this poem?

7. “He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought--- So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought.” And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey Wood, And burbled as it came!”
Which word from these stanzas is an example of Onomatopeia?

8. ANALYZE VISUALS
What three adjectives best describe the beast?

9. “One, two. One, two. And thought he stood
“One, two! One, two! And thought he stood. The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came!” “One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.”
Of whom is the narrator talking about?
Identify the rhyme scheme in these two stanzas.

10. ANALYZE VISUALS
Use four adjectives to describe this creature.

11. What’s the attitude of the narrator in these stanzas?
“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooch! Callay!”
He chottled in his joy.
“’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.”
What’s the attitude of the narrator in these stanzas?

12. SOUND DEVICES
Rhyme: Is the repetition of the sounds at the end of words. (baloney and macaroni).
Repetition: Is the use of a word or phrase more tan once.
Onomatopoeia: Is the use of words that sound like their meanings. (buzz, whisper, squish)
Alliteration: Is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. (twenty tame tigers).