Jabberwocky

A Jabberwock is a fictional beast, which appears in a poem in the novel “Through the Looking Glass.” The poem in that novel is in fact “Jabberwocky” written by Lewis Carroll. The poem itself is full of “jabberwocky,” which can also means nonsense. The speaker uses many literary devices throughout the poem, but there are three specific literary devices that have the most effect on the work. Those three are the diction, imagery, and rhyming. In this poem, Lewis Carroll paints the perfect picture of a strange, dangerous, amazing creature and land by using strong imagery, strange diction and upbeat rhyming.
In the poem “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll, the speaker is talking about a boy. This boy went looking to slay a Jabberwock, one that his father

The way the rhyming is used makes the poem sound like a song. This is called a ballad, but this poem is also a ballad stanza. A ballad stanza is where a poem has alternating lines of six and eight syllables with the second and fourth verses rhyming. This appears in the third, fifth, and sixth stanzas. There is an abab rhyming pattern throughout the rest of the poem. Carroll rhymes both the English and the nonsense words in his poem. For example, Carroll rhymes “catch” with “Bandersnatch” (6 and 8). “Catch” is an English world while “Bandersnatch” is a nonsense word. (6 and 8). This rhyming helps make the poem more fluent and enjoyable to read that only Carroll could have done through the use of his nonsense words and imagery. The diction, rhyming, and imagery all work together to convey the overall meaning of the poem. This poem makes the reader think more yet somehow less. Although sometimes the reader guess what the speaker is trying to convey, if they use their imagination, the reader does not really need to know what the speaker meant. Even though the words are nonsense they can still make imagery. Also they all work together to make the poem exciting and full of adventure while also telling the story of good versus