Aunt Jennifer's Tigers

"Aunt Jennifer’s tigers prance across a screen,

Bright topaz denizens of a world of green."

What are literary devices used in "Topaz Denizens" used?

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Symbolism

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"Aunt Jennifer’s fingers fluttering through her wool Find even the ivory needle hard to pull."

What is the figurative device used in fingers fluttering"?

• Alliteration and Metaphor

• Metaphor and symbolism

• symbolism and Simile

• Transferred Epithet

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"They pace in sleek chivalric certainly.."

What is the Literary Device used in the above lines?

• Alliteration

• Symbolism

• Metaphor

• Transferred Epithet

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"The massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band"

Why is this "massive weight" of uncle's wedding band a metaphor?

• because the weight of unhappiness in the marriage is too heavy for the aunt to carry

• because of the heaviness in Aunt's heart due to an unhappy marriage

• because the wedding ring was really big and heavy on aunt's fingers

• because Aunt's husband was was dominating, and he didn't allow Aunt freedom to express her creativity

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"her terrified hands will lie

Still ringed with ordeals she was mastered by."

"ringed with ordeals" means":

• Aunt's life was surrounded by troubles and painful difficulties

• Aunt was tamed, and her husband suppressed her creativity all her life

• Her husband was like the "RING MASTER" to the Aunt.

• Aunt wedding Ring would not be taken off her finger even when she died

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"The tigers in the panel that she made

Will go on prancing, proud and unafraid."

Why would the tigers go on prancing, unafraid?

• The tigers would be an expression of Aunt's undying spirit

• tigers wanted to dance

• tigers symbolify the desire of Aunt Jennifer to create and win over men

• They were embroidered tigers who could not die

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"Aunt Jennifer’s fingers fluttering through her wool Find even the ivory needle hard to pull."

What is it difficult to "pull the ivory needle" ?

• Because Aunt Jennifer is weak due to old age

• because she has been suppressed all her life

• because Aunt finds it difficult to bring out strength for expressing creativity

• because it is difficult to embroider with an "IVORY NEEDLE"

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"They do not fear the men beneath the tree"

Why has Aunt jennifer shown men fearing the tigers in the embroidered panel?

• because She herself had feared the man in her life

• because She wanted to revolt against all the men

• because the indomitable spirit in her could not be afraid of men

• because man always fears tigers

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Who is the poet of "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers"?

• Stephens Spender

• Adrienne Rich

• Pablo Neruda

• John Keats

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"Bright topaz denizens of a world of green."

What is the "World of green" here?

• the embroidery panel

• the forest

• green revolution

• She painted the panel green

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