Through The Looking Glass: Jabberwocky By Lewis Carroll

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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 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 by using strong imagery, strange diction and upbeat rhyming. In the poem “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll, the narrator is talking about a boy. This boy went looking to slay a Jabberwock, one that his father had warned