CLASS 10
A TIGER IN THE ZOO
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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By giving it a unique name
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By using ‘he’ and not ‘it’
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By calling it tiger and not animal
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D)None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -He never tries to terrorise the visitors because his power is restricted by the cage. Therefore, he never tries to terrorise the visitors as he cannot attack them. Personification: The tiger is personified because the poet refers him as ‘he’.
Detailed explanation-2: -Personification: The tiger is personified because the poet refers him as ‘he’. Enjambment: Sentence is continuing to next line without any punctuation mark.
Detailed explanation-3: -’A Tiger in the Zoo’ by Leslie Norris presents several themes such as freedom vs captivity, tamed vs wild, wilderness, and natural beauty. The most important theme of the poem is freedom vs captivity. In this poem, Norris describes how the tiger longs for its freedom.
Detailed explanation-4: -The tiger is referred to with the use of the pronoun ‘he’, implying that he can feel like humans do, that is, feeling helpless at being imprisoned and wanting to be free. Therefore, the tiger has been personified, that is, has been given human-like qualities in this poem.
Detailed explanation-5: -Poetic devices used are enjambment, alliteration, assonance.