And when she lands, and sees its dark overhead, and notices the passage lies before her, a simile is employed by Carroll, right after a brief irony: "There was not a moment to be lost [she is lost]: away went Alice like the wind." So the reader is moved through imagery from a dream-like falling scene Alice moving as fast as the wind. .

             And now she was too big to squeeze through a tiny passage into "the loveliest garden you ever saw." The garden's bright flowers and cool fountains bring sharp imagery to mind, fountains being wet to the touch and refreshing to the eye. A simile is used as Alice hopes she could shrink herself "Like a telescope." Alice's taste buds come into play when she drinks the bottle that urged her to "Drink Me"; the amazing varieties of flavors in the drink are clearly intended to enrich the imagery for readers: "cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffy, and hot buttered toast." What child wouldn't crave such a splendid ensemble of flavors? This is helpful to Alice, who had to be trembling inside with nervousness at being trapped as she was.

             After shrinking, she also worried about ".going out altogether, like a candle," and the simile creates a nice image; one can see the smoke rising from a snuffed-out candle; and the moment of Alice wondering what the flame "looks like after the candle is blown out" is a way of simply keeping the childlike wonderment alive in the story. It's all about imagination, anyway.

             In Chapter II, Alice is tall and tearful, so Carroll uses exaggeration as a metaphor; Alice shed "gallons of tears, until there was a large pool all round her." Hearing the rabbit ("a little pattering of feet in the distance") was a moment of encouragement for Alice, who is not used to being all alone in a strange place. She wonders who she is, and if she is Ada, her friend, or Mabel. She tries to do some math, and fails. .

             Meanwhile author Martin Gardner (The Annotated Alice) points out in his book that Carroll was a math teacher, and enjoyed creating nonsense with numbers, hence Alice's bumbling attempt to calm herself by using multiplication; "Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen," she says.