Tam O' Shanter Questions and answers(100% accuracy)
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Comedy in the poem
Drunkenness and misjudgement
Representations of ordinary people
Farce
Exaggeration
Foolish behaviour / buffoonery
Tragedy averted
Happy ending
Sexual innuendo and bawdiness
Strong female characters (are ultimately not given a happy ending, so not fully em...
Tam O' Shanter
Questions and
answers(100%
accuracy)
Comedy in the poem - answer Drunkenness and misjudgement
Representations of ordinary people
Farce
Exaggeration
Foolish behaviour / buffoonery
Tragedy averted
Happy ending
Sexual innuendo and bawdiness
Strong female characters (are ultimately not given a happy ending, so not
fully empowered)
Comic hero
, Drunkenness and misjudgement
(comedy) - answer Tam characterised from the start as a man who enjoys
alcohol - drunk every market day and often beyond. Being drunk causes
Tam to make bad decisions eg looking in Alloway Kirk, not going home
until the storm has hit etc.
Narrator states the effects of alcohol (lines 107-113)
"Wi' tippeny, we fear nae evil; Wi' usquabae, we'll face the devil!"
Representations of ordinary people
(comedy) - answer Tam - ordinary working class man, friends in pub, wife
at home... shows his life in a comic light.
Farce
(comedy) - answer Chase at the end is farcical, culminating in Maggie's tail
being pulled off by the witch.
"And left poor Maggie scarce a stump"
Exaggeration
(comedy) - answer Narrator describes Tam's joyful drunkenness using
exaggeration and hyperbole (lines 53-58)
"E'en drown'd himsel' amang the nappy!"
Narrator's exaggerated description of the old ugly witches (contrasts with
youthful attractive witch).
"But wither'd beldams, auld and droll"
Foolish behaviour / buffoonery
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