“Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll.

Following are a few stanzas from the nonsense poem “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll.
a. Choose six nonsense words in the poem, and label them N, V, P, A, or Adv. Explain why you labeled them
as you did and what syntactic (and other) evidence you used.
b. Find six function words in the poem. How do they contribute to the meaning of the poem and help you make
sense of it?
c. What clues, other than grammatical ones, help you derive meaning from the poem? Can you tell what's
going on? On what do you base your interpretation?