These questions are about the poem “Jabberwocky”
These questions are about the poem “Jabberwocky”.
Choose the best word or group of words to fit the poem and put a ring around your choice.
1. The poem was written by
2. The poem was written in the year
3. What does the poet warn his son that he needs to “shun”
4. What do you think a “vorpal sword” is?
5. What word class do you think “galumphing” (line 20) is:
6. Why did our hero have to “rest by the Tumtum tree”:
7. Did our hero slay the Jabberwock? How do you know?
JABBERWOCKY
Lewis Carroll
(from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872)
`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.
MORS IABROCHII
by Augustus Arthur Vansittart
Coesper erat: tunc lubriciles altravia circum
Urgebant gyros gimbiculosque tophi:
Moestenui visae borogovides ire meatu:
Et profugi gemitus exgrabuere rathae.
O fuge Iabrochium, sanguis meus! Ille recurvis
Unguibus, estque avidis dentibus ille minax.
Ububae fuge cautus avis vim, gnate! Neque unquam
Faedarpax contra te frumiosus eat!
Vorpali gladio iuvenis succingitur: hostis
Manxumus ad medium quaeritur usque diem:
Imanque via fesso sed plurima mente prementi,
Timtumie frondis suaserat umbra moram.
Consilia interdum stetit egnia mente revolvens:
At gravis in densa fronde susuffrus erat,
Spiculaque ex oculis iacientis flammea, tulscam
Per silvam venit burbur Iabrochii!
Vorpali, semel atque iterum collectus in ictum
Persnicuit gladio persnacuitque puer:
Deinde glaumphatus, spernens informe cadaver,
Horrendum monstri rettulit ipse caput.
Victor Iabbrochii, spoliis insignis opimis
Rursus in amplexus, o radiose, meos!
O frabiose dies! CALLO clamatque CALLA!
Vix potuit laetus chorticulare pater.
Coesper erat: tunc lubriciles altravia circum
Urgebant gyros gimbiculosque tophi:
Moestenui visae borogovides ire meatu:
Et profugi gemitus exgrabuere rathae.
(Paul writes: I have also included a latin translation of the poem "Jabberwocky" as I started the lesson with this. "It doesn't make sense!" cried the children. We looked at the English version. "It doesn't make sense!" cried the children...!)
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Lewis Carroll
Michael Morpurgo
C S Lewis
Dick King Smith
1641
2004
1872
1908
The Jabberwock
Jubjub birds
The frumious Bandersnatch
Tumtum trees
A type of weapon
A type of fruit
A type of animal
A type of plant
adjective
noun
verb
adverb
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