What are 3 words that are punned in chapter 9 of the adventures of Alice in wonderland?

Answer 1

Lewis Carroll loved word-play and puns, and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has many examples. In particular, Chapter 9, The Mock Turtle's Story, has numerous examples when the Mock Turtle is describing his education:'When we were little...we went to school in the sea. The master was an old Turtle - we used to call him Tortoise -'

'Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?' Alice asked.

'We called him Tortoise because he taught us,'

He goes on to name the subjects he studied:'Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with...and the the different branches of Arithmetic - Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.'

He continues:'Mystery, ancient and modern, with Seaography: then Drawling - the Drawling master was an old conger-eel, that used to come in once a week: he taught us Drawling, Stretching and Fainting in Coils.'

The Gryphon contributes: ...'I went to the Classical master, though. He was an old crab, he was.' 'I never went to him,' said the Mock Turtle with a sigh. 'He taught Laughing and Grief, they used to say.'

Alice asks a question:'And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' asked Alice, in a hurry to change the subject.

'Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: 'nine the next, and so on.'

'What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice.

'That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.'

An example may be in chapter III in the book, called: A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale

When everybody gets wet, the mouse tries to get them all dry by telling them a history lesson, the driest (here, boring, uninteresting) thing he knows.

After the race, the mouse tells Alice about his long and sad tale. Alice thinks he means his tail, and agrees it is long, but doesn't understand why he calls it sad.

Answer 2

The first word based joke in Chapter Three occurs when the Mouse tries to get the animals dry by telling them a long, boring story on the grounds that it is the "driest" thing it knows.

`Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, `are you all ready? This is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! "William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria--"'

This is swiftly followed by a joke based on the meaning of the pronoun "it"

"Edwin and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him: and even Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found it advisable--"'

`Found WHAT?' said the Duck.

`Found IT,' the Mouse replied rather crossly: `of course you know what "it" means.'

`I know what "it" means well enough, when I find a thing,' said the Duck: `it 's generally a frog or a worm. The question is, what did the archbishop find?'

After the caucus-race there is a joke based on the homophones "tale" and "tail"

`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:--

At which point, there is a poem which is printed in such a way as to resemble a mouse's tail. This is an example of an emblematic or figured poem and is a kind of visual pun.

Alice annoys the Mouse by not paying attention to the poem, leading to another pun.

`I beg your pardon,' said Alice very humbly: `you had got to the fifth bend, I think?'

`I had NOT!' cried the Mouse, sharply and very angrily.

`A knot!' said Alice, always ready to make herself useful, and looking anxiously about her. `Oh, do let me help to undo it!'

The mouse storms off which upsets the animals somewhat and leads a crab advising her daughter not to lose her temper. The younger crab's reply is what is known as a "Tom Swifty" (or Swiftie)

Hold your tongue, Ma!' said the young Crab, a little snappishly.

A Tom Swifty is a sentence which contains a quote, followed by a pun describing the manner it is delivered and the person who delivers it - hence the crab speaks snappishly.

There are fewer examples of word play in Chapter Four, but it is possible that, when Pat says he is digging for apples, this is a joke based on the French for potato being pomme de terre, literally 'earth apple'.

Answer 3

Three words that are punned in chapter 9 of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" are "feathers," "sneeze," and "xiphias."

Answer 4

At last the Dodo said, `Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.'