Your Task: Closely read the attached excerpt from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Advent

Your Task: Closely read the attached excerpt from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Write a well-developed, text-based response of two to three paragraphs. In your response, identify a central idea in the text and analyze how the author uses one literary technique or literary element to develop a central idea. Do not simply summarize the text. Use strong and thoughtful textual evidence to support your analysis.
Guidelines:
• Identify a central idea or theme in the text.
• Pick one literary element or literary technique used by the author. Analyze how the author uses this strategy to develop this central idea or theme. Examples of strategies include: characterization, conflict, personification, denotation/connotation, metaphor, simile, irony, language use, point-of-view, setting, structure, symbolism, theme, tone, etc.
• Use textual evidence with direct quotes and examples from text to support your analysis (by line number).
• Organize your ideas.
• Maintain a formal style of writing.
• Follow the conventions of standard written English.