| Reference Term |
Name |
Definition |
Example |
| allit |
alliteration |
The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning
of
words or in stressed syllables
|
She had "dwindled down to the size of a little doll"(Chapter 9). |
| allusion |
allusion |
Instance of indirect reference to an outside work |
"Of course you agree to have a battle?"(Chapter 4, when Tweedledum references a poem
in
which he is a character)
|
| apost |
apostrophe |
a digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified
object or idea.
|
When Alice monologues to her cat throughout the first and last chapter |
| hyperbole |
hyperbole |
A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect |
"They wanted to squeeze me flat!"(Chapter 9) |
| irony |
irony |
The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal
meaning
|
"Thirst quenched?" asks the Red Queen of Alice after feeding her a biscuit (Chapter
2)
|
| non |
nonsense |
Subject matter, behavior, or language that is foolish or absurd |
When the Red Queen claims that in Looking Glass world, the nights are five times as
warm and five times as cold...because there are five nights in a row (Chapter 9)
|
| parody |
parody |
A literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or
a work for comic effect or ridicule
|
When the Red Queen sings a mock-up of "Rock a Bye Baby" to the White Queen (Chapter
9)
|
| personification |
personification |
A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human
qualities or are represented as possessing human form>
|
When the frog guard at the banquest claims that knocking on the door "vexes" it, as
if it is a living thing (Chapter 9)
|
| pun |
pun |
A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the
similar sense or sound of different words
|
When a flower claims that a flower bed that is too soft will cause the flowers to
fall asleep (Chapter 2)
|
| repPhrase |
repetition |
The act or process or an instance of repeating or being repeated |
The occurrence of "provoking!" in Humpty Dumpty's speech over the course of a chapter
(Chapter 6)
|
| simile |
simile |
A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a
phrase introduced by like or as
|
When the White Knight claims the wind is "strong as soup"(Chapter 8) |