Based on the "Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky"
1. which words in the first stanza are nouns ? which ones are adjectives ? which ones are verbs?
2. Based on the parts of speech, what could this stanza mean?
3. What tone can you identify in the first stanza? for example , is it happy and carefree or fearful and gloomy?
4. In stanza two, who are the "antagonists" in this poem? How do you know?
5. In stanza three, what words do you recognize? How do these help you understand what the young man is planning to do?
6.In stanza four, what sound words (onomatopoeia) are used? What do you think the sound like?
7. In stanza five, what do you think "beamish and "frabjous" could mean? Can you think of adjectives that may have a similar meaning? What words do we use in traditional english that could be represented by "Callooh! Callay!"
8. Why do you think Carroll ends with the same stanza as the beginning of the poem? Does anything change in the woods because of the death of the Jabberwock?​