Read this excerpt from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll. “I'd rather not try, please!” said Alice. “I'm quite content to stay here—only I AM so hot and thirsty!”

“I know what YOU'D like!” the Queen said good-naturedly, taking a little box out of her pocket. “Have a biscuit?”

Alice thought it would not be civil to say “No,” though it wasn't at all what she wanted. So she took it, and ate it as well as she could: and it was VERY dry; and she thought she had never been so nearly choked in all her life.

“While you're refreshing yourself,” said the Queen, “I'll just take the measurements.” And she took a ribbon out of her pocket, marked in inches, and began measuring the ground, and sticking little pegs in here and there.

What question could a reader ask to better understand the use of opposites in this passage?

Why does Alice not want the biscuit?
Why is Alice suddenly so thirsty?
What does the Red Queen give to Alice?
What is the Red Queen doing while Alice eats?