Language and Literature
Mr. Turtola
Name :
1. Where did Jabberwocky originate?
2. According to Humpty Dumpty, what means "four o'clock in the afternoon"?
3. What does portmanteau mean?
4. Give two examples of portmanteau.
5. In Carroll's letter to Maud Standen, he explains some of his nonsense words.
What does he say about how he formed the word "burble"?
6. What is the name of the book that some of Carroll's words can be found?
7. Deans mentions in her essay that Victorian culture was very different from
that of today. What were meanings of some of Carroll's words that Victorians
would have been able to understand better than us?
8. In order to keep the meaning of the poem somewhat clear to the reader,
Carroll uses three techniques. Describe them in your own words.
9. Dean said this about the nonsensical words: "It is only from its placement
in the sentence that we can determine how it functions within the sentence."
She is referring to the way the words can be recognized as word types (nouns,
verbs, and adjectives). Take a portion of the poem (5-6 lines) and label each
of the nonsensical words according to their word type.