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

"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

"They pace in sleek chivalric certainly.."

What is the Literary Device used in the above lines?

• Alliteration

• Symbolism

• Metaphor

• Transferred Epithet

"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

"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

"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

"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"

"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

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

• Stephens Spender

• Adrienne Rich

• Pablo Neruda

• John Keats

"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