ENG 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Acrostic, Alice Liddell
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*naming is arbitrary = alice cannot remember her name, or the names of other things. Also questions why things are named the way they are. *loneliness /interior life/ voice/ imagination = alice goes through this world all alone, even though she meets many people and creatures along the way. *reversal - backwards/ logic = everything in this world is backwards. *parody of monarchy = the kings and queens are parodies of real life monarchy. *acrostic = when the first letters on each line of a poem spell something out. First word of each line spells out alice pleasance liddell . Middle upper = officers of high rank, barons and lords. Lower upper = wealthy, country gentlemen, large scale. High middle = earned high salaries and social standing. Low middle = employee"s who worked for high middle class.
