Alice in Wonderland For the CSET

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Rhetorical Devices

A few rhetorical devices used include: parody, concrete poetry, foreshadowing, puns, and satire.

Much of Alice in Wonderland is a parody of Victorian schooling. Another famous parody is “Twinkle, twinkle little bat” of “Twinkle, twinkle little star”:

“Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you’re at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea-tray in the sky.”

A famous example of concrete poetry (poetry in which the typographical arrangement of words is as important as the poem) is in Chapter 3:

‘Mine is a long and a sad tale!’ said the Mouse, turning to Alice, and sighing.

‘It IS a long tail, certainly,’ said Alice, looking down with wonder at the Mouse’s tail; ‘but why do you call it sad?’ And she kept on puzzling about it while the Mouse was speaking, so that her idea of the tale was something like this:—

     ‘Fury said to a
    mouse, That he
   met in the
  house,
 “Let us
  both go to
   law: I will
    prosecute
     you.—Come,
      I’ll take no