Aunt Jennifer's Tigers ` The mid twentieth century American poet Adrienne Rich was a product of a conservative Southern family. ... Adrienne Rich uses a number of similes and symbols in the poem to convey her theme. ... However, Adrienne Rich seems to distance herself from the image of Aunt Jennifer by placing Aunt Jennifer in a separate generation from herself. ... In terms of the meter, structure, and rhyme of the poem, Aunt Jennifer's Tigers Adrienne Rich utilizes quatrains, consisting of couplets, for a total of six sentences in twelve lines. ... Adrienne Rich's...

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British lexicographer, Henry Watson Fowler once said, "Any definition of irony - though hundreds might be given, and very few of them would be accepted - must include this: that the surface meaning and the underlying meaning of what is said are not the same". Irony can be quite a complex concept to...

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