Aunt Jennifer's Tigers

The verses in this poem are:

• Quatrains (4 line stanzas)

• Couplets (2 line stanzas)

• Tercets (3 line stanzas)

Rhyme scheme:

• There is none.

• There is a regular rhyme scheme of AABB (rhyming couplets)

• There is a regular rhyme scheme of ABAB.

What are "bright green denizens in a world of green"?

• The tigers on Aunt Jennifer's television.

• The tigers in Aunt Jennifer's embroidered screen.

• The tigers stitched into Aunt Jennifer's jumper.

The Tigers "pace in sleek chivalric certainty" suggests that the tigers are:

• confident and fearless

• graceful but fragile

What technique is contained in this line:

"Aunt Jennifer's fingers fluttering through her wool"

• repetition

• alliteration and visual imagery

• alliteration and tactile imagery

• alliteration, and visual and tactile imagery

Complete the line:

"Find even the ______ needle hard ___ ____"

Type the three letters in the correct order. One space between each one. Lower case (no capitals)

(a)  

"The massive weight of Uncle's wedding band

Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer's hand."

The ring is symbolic of:

• Uncle's love for his wife

• Eternity in the afterlife

• How oppressive marriage can be on women

What will live on when 'Aunt is dead'?

• The tiger species, despite being endangered.

• The screen that Aunt Jennifer embroidered with tigers

• Uncle

Which stanzas are written in the present tense?

• The first and third

• The first and second

• The third

Which stanza is written in the future tense?

• First

• Second

• Third

• None of them