Jabberwocky (Grade 9)
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Jabberwocky
Instructions:
Use the following poem to answer the questions:
’Twas brillig, and the slithy 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!”
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!
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.
“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled 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.
- the descriptions of the boy and his father
- the poem's complex and suspenseful plot
- the descriptions of the boy's fighting techniques
- invented words and descriptions of unusual creatures
- the mimsy borogoves
- the need to hunt and gather food
- the wish to slay his longtime foe
- the need to find his missing sword
- Alliteration
- Onomatopoeia
- Rhythm
- Symbolism
- adverb
- verb
- adjective
- noun
- Context clues
- Visualize
- Sound out the word
- Use prior knowledge
- Angry
- Disappointed
- Joyous
- Happy
- Eyes of flame
- Burbled
- Wiffling
- Frumious
- Rhyme
- Repetition
- Alliteration
- Imagery
- Stanzas two and four
- Stanzas three and five
- Stanzas one and two
- Stanzas six and seven
- Stanza one
- Stanza four
- Stanza five
- Stanza seven
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