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Reading and Writing Skills Jabberwocky: Ms. Ludie S. Mahinay

This document provides context and analysis of Lewis Carroll's famous nonsense poem "Jabberwocky". It identifies Carroll as the author, a 19th century mathematician who wrote Alice in Wonderland. The poem uses invented language to tell a story of a quest to slay a creature called the Jabberwock. The document defines some of the made-up words and analyzes the plot across the poem's stanzas. It also notes Carroll's use of portmanteau words, which fuse two words to create new meanings.

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Reading and Writing Skills Jabberwocky: Ms. Ludie S. Mahinay

This document provides context and analysis of Lewis Carroll's famous nonsense poem "Jabberwocky". It identifies Carroll as the author, a 19th century mathematician who wrote Alice in Wonderland. The poem uses invented language to tell a story of a quest to slay a creature called the Jabberwock. The document defines some of the made-up words and analyzes the plot across the poem's stanzas. It also notes Carroll's use of portmanteau words, which fuse two words to create new meanings.

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Reading and Writing

Skills;
JABBERWOCKY
MS. LUDIE S. MAHINAY
WHO IS THE AUTHOR?
LEWIS CARROLL
(CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON)
• Math professor in mid 1800s
• Wrote many books on math and logic
• Wrote “Alice in Wonderland” and “Through the
Looking Glass”
• Author of the “Jabberwocky” poem-one of most
famous nonsense poems
• Poem is written in “Through the Looking Glass”
JABBERWOCKY
by Lewis Carroll
`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 has 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.
UNLOCKING OF DIFFICULTIES:
 Brillig  Outgrabe
 Slithy  Shun  Snicker-snack
 Toves  Frumious  Galumphing
 Gyre  Vorpal  Beamish
 Gimble  Manxome  Frabjous
 Wabe  Tumtum  Chortle
 Mimsy  Uffish  Jubjub bird
 Borogoves  Whiffling  Bandersnatch
 Mome  Tulgey  Jabberwock
 Raths  Burble
Portmanteau Words
 New words that are formed from two words
or parts of words which are fused to give
new meaning

EXAMPLES:
Brunch-Breakfast and lunch
Ginormous-Gigantic and enormous
Brangelina-Brad Pitt and Angelina
Some Portmanteau Words found in the poem:
1) frumious (fuming, furious)
2) uffish (gruffish, roughish, huffish)
3) burble (bleat, murmur, warble)
4) mimsy (flimsy, miserable)
5) mome (from home)
6) galumph (gallop, jump)
7) slithy (lythe, slimy)
8) frabjous (fabulous, joyous)
9) chortle (chuckle, snort)
In groups, take stanzas and decipher
what is happening in the plot.
“JABBERWOCKY”
1- Background
2- Warning
3- Going on the quest
4- Arrival of the foe
5- The battle
6- Celebration
7- Repeat the first stanza
Conclusion:

The poem tells the story of a


brave man who sets out to slay
the Jabberwock, and finally
returns home with its’ head.

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