Tyger, tyger

Question 1

‘Tyger, tyger’

Answer 1

Alliteration + directly addresses the tiger

Question 2

‘Burning bright’

Answer 2

Alliteration + plosives - fiery imagery implies danger

Question 3

‘Forests of the night’

Answer 3

Imagery - mysterious environment

Question 4

‘Immortal’

Answer 4

Allusions to divine

Question 5

‘Fearful symmetry?’

Answer 5

Juxtaposition- danger and beauty
Skilled and intricate creator
Intrigue - ?

Question 6

‘deeps or skies’

Answer 6

Alluding to heaven and hell

Question 7

‘What dread hand? & what dread feet?’

Answer 7

Repetition (dread)+ intrigue

Question 8

‘Hammer’
‘Chain’
‘Furnace’
‘Anvil’

Answer 8

Metaphor / God = blacksmith

Question 9

‘Stars threw down their spears’

Answer 9

Metaphor for angels
Personification

Question 10

‘Dare its deadly terrors clasp!’

Answer 10

Alliteration- horror

Question 11

‘Did he who made the Lamb make thee?’

Answer 11

God= punitive and forgiving

Question 12

‘Dare frame thy fearful symmetry’

Answer 12

God takes risks and “plays with fire”

Question 13

Repetition of 1st stanza at the end

Answer 13

Questions are never answered
Frames the poem