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* [[Mirror Chemistry]]: Alice wonders if looking-glass milk is good to drink; this is likely the [[Ur Example]] as it predates the scientific basis for the trope.
* [[Mirror Chemistry]]: Alice wonders if looking-glass milk is good to drink; this is likely the [[Ur Example]] as it predates the scientific basis for the trope.
* [[Murder Ballad]]: "The Walrus and the Carpenter."
* [[Murder Ballad]]: "The Walrus and the Carpenter."
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* [[Nursery Rhyme]]: Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledee and Tweedledum are characters from nursery rhymes.
* [[Nervous Wreck]]: The White Rabbit.
* [[Nervous Wreck]]: The White Rabbit.
* [[Nice to the Waiter]]: Alice is kind and polite to pretty much everyone she meets. This is in contrast to the White Rabbit, who apparently is upper-class enough for a servant, to whom he speaks rudely, and we later see him boot-licking the Queen of Hearts.
* [[Nice to the Waiter]]: Alice is kind and polite to pretty much everyone she meets. This is in contrast to the White Rabbit, who apparently is upper-class enough for a servant, to whom he speaks rudely, and we later see him boot-licking the Queen of Hearts.
** Actually, in the Victorian era, Alice would have been considered a rude and impatient little girl. Etiquette has changed over the years.
** Actually, in the Victorian era, Alice would have been considered a rude and impatient little girl. Etiquette has changed over the years.
* [[No Name Given]]: Alice's sister.
* [[No Name Given]]: Alice's sister.
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* [[Nursery Rhyme]]: Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledee and Tweedledum are characters from nursery rhymes.
* [[One-Paragraph Chapter]]: Put together, chapters 10 and 11 of ''Through the Looking-Glass'' (in which Alice wakes and the Red Queen becomes a kitten) have only 57 words (and two pictures).
* [[One-Paragraph Chapter]]: Put together, chapters 10 and 11 of ''Through the Looking-Glass'' (in which Alice wakes and the Red Queen becomes a kitten) have only 57 words (and two pictures).
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Alice often plays this role to the various characters she meets along her adventures, though she herself sometimes does things that are a little peculiar (Talks to herself, wonders whether she is Mabel, recites original whimsical poetry, has previously tried to box her own ears for cheating in a game of croquet against herself, and, in ''Through the Looking Glass'', she constantly converses with her cats). The Cheshire Cat asserts that everyone in Wonderland, including Alice, is "mad."
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Alice often plays this role to the various characters she meets along her adventures, though she herself sometimes does things that are a little peculiar (Talks to herself, wonders whether she is Mabel, recites original whimsical poetry, has previously tried to box her own ears for cheating in a game of croquet against herself, and, in ''Through the Looking Glass'', she constantly converses with her cats). The Cheshire Cat asserts that everyone in Wonderland, including Alice, is "mad."
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