wheat pudding
the extended mouth parts of certain insects, generally used for sucking or piercing
a ball of tightly twisted yarn
The Question and Answer section for Through the Looking Glass is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
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Example of personification:
Alice was too much puzzled to say anything; so after a minute Humpty Dumpty began again. “They’ve a temper, some of them—particularly verbs: they’re the proudest—adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs—...
Carroll's attitudes toward adulthood are not entirely clear in the book, though the book itself can be seen as a motif for the progression from childhood to adulthood, as represented by Alice's journey as a pawn to queenhood. She undergoes many...
