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ENG2614 ASSIGNMENT 1 2026
DUE DATE: 4 MAY 2026
Question 1
Read the extract from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll and
then answer the questions that follow: Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting
by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped
into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it,
“and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversations?”
Question 1.1
1.1 What kind of literature does this story belong to? Is it fiction or nonfiction?
–
fantasy
or
realism?
–
and
prose,
poetry
or
drama?
Give
at
least
three
reasons from the
passage for
your
answers.
You
may
quote
or
paraphrase.
Answer
in
a
single
paragraph.
It is fiction.
Because the events described are invented and impossible in reality for example,
a rabbit that talks, wears a waistcoat‑pocket and carries a watch.
It is fantasy rather than realism because the story creates an imaginary world with
its own rules, as seen when Alice falls down a rabbit‑hole and finds “cupboards
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