In another moment Alice was through the glass, and had jumped lightly down into the Looking-glass room. The very first thing she did was to look whether there was a fire in the fireplace, and she was quite pleased to find that there was a real one, blazing away as brightly as the one she had left behind. "So I shall be as warm here as I was in the old room,” thought Alice: "warmer, in fact, because there'll be no one here to scold me away from the fire. Oh, what fun it'll be, when they see me through the glass in here, and can't get at me!”
Then she began looking about, and noticed that what could be seen from the old room was quite common and uninteresting, but that all the rest was as different as possible. For instance, the pictures on the wall next to the fire seemed to be all alive, and the very clock on the chimney-piece (you know you can only see the back of it in the Looking-glass) had got the face of a little old man, and grinned at her.
Which detail from the passage allows the reader to predict that Alice has stepped into an unusual place?
The very first thing she did was to look whether there was a fire in the fireplace, and she was quite pleased to find that there was a real one
“So I shall be as warm here as I was in the old room,” thought Alice: “warmer, in fact, because there'll be no one here to scold me away from the fire.
Then she began looking about, and noticed that what could be seen from the old room was quite common and uninteresting . . .
. . . and the very clock on the chimney-piece (you know you can only see the back of it in the Looking-glass) had got the face of a little old man, and grinned at her.
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The detail that allows the reader to predict that Alice has stepped into an unusual place is: "...and the very clock on the chimney-piece (you know you can only see the back of it in the Looking-glass) had got the face of a little old man, and grinned at her."
This detail indicates that the objects in the Looking-glass room are not what they appear to be in the real world and introduces the element of whimsy and absurdity that characterizes the unusual world Alice has entered.
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