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    Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a story of a young girl’s journey down the rabbit hole into a fantasy world where there seems to be no logic. Throughout Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice experiences a variety of bizarre physical changes, causing her to realize she is not only trying to figure out Wonderland but also trying to determine her own identity. After Alice arrives in Wonderland the narrator states, “For this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people”

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    adulthood, characters transform in what is referred to as coming of age, otherwise known as adolescence. Because all humans experience this transition, it establishes coming of age as a timeless universal literary theme. Among coming of age novels include Lewis Carroll’s tale about a seven-year-old Victorian girl named Alice. In the novel Alice’s Adventures

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    1. The genre of the novella, Alice in Wonderland is a children fictional story that has genre elements such as fable yet in a fairy-tale manner and an allegory. A possible genre of the story Alice in Wonderland is a fantasy as the Wonderland is more fantasy-like to the young Alice. 2. The exposition of the story, Alice in Wonderland is the first setting seen. The first setting is the exposition this is because Alice is seen with her older sister on a bank. The rising action of the novella, Alice

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    Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll endures as one of the most iconic children 's books of all time. It remains one of the most ambiguous texts to decipher as Alice 's adventures in Wonderland have created endless critical debate as to whether we can deduce any true literary meaning, or moral implication from her journey down the rabbit hole. Alice 's station as a seven year old Victorian child creates an interesting construct within the novel as she attempts to navigate this magical parallel plain

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    Imagine this, you’re alone on the sea completely lost. Nothing as far as the eye can see can guide you but you’re own thoughts. There's a war inside your head thinking about what to do why you're here and if you ever find land, how will you survive. How will this develop you as a person? How would someone else act in this situation? What is best applied to this situation? These are somewhat like the questions we ask to develop the sea archetype but in a different point of view. So, How is the sea

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    Jabberwocky By Alic Lear

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    is for readers to understand and imagine the meaning of the words without knowing the direct definition. Lewis Carroll believed, “No word has a meaning inseparable attached to it, a word means what the speaker intends by it, and what the hearer understands by it, and that is all.” (193). This gives authors the authority to give words whatever meaning they want. This is seen in Alice when Carroll describes the “Jabberwocky” and the readers are forced to imagine a completely new creature. 2. What

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    always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn 't gone down that rabbit-hole--and yet--and yet--it 's rather curious, you know, this sort of life! I do wonder what can have happened to me”. Lewis Carroll 's "Alice in Wonderland" which takes the reader into the fantasy world of rabbit holes and mad hatters, magic cakes and secret doors, very articulately conveys that food can be used as a temptation or as a ploy tool to trap the protagonist to

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    “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll and “The Lorax” by Dr. Seuss are examples of a poem that has nonsense words. Nonsense words are words that doesn’t make any sense or have meaning. Although they are both poems, “Jabberwocky” and “The Lorax” still has similarities and differences of word usage, nonsense vocabulary terms, figurative language, and sound devices. To begin, there is word usage influencing the story in both poems. Nevertheless, there are different vocabulary nonsense words in both poems

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    Introduction to Personification Personification, specifically anthropomorphism, has evolved within the English language over the past millenniums. Personification, defined as “the practice of representing a thing or idea as a person” by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, was first used over 30,000 years ago in prehistoric works of art and within various forms of mythology. These art forms and fictional creatures utilize anthropomorphism, a sub-category to personification that deals exclusively with

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    In todays world most are familiar with the story of Alice in Wonderland, though, admittedly, most are more familiar with the Disney movie than the actual book by Lewis Carroll. Tho both are captivating in their imagination, the bear some striking similarities and differences. The movie and the book have to be different, as they are different mediums and can convey different things. In 1951, Disney, a company well-known for animating favorite fairy tales, animated the well-loved story of Alice

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