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Genres Of Literature Question Paper

Genres Of Literature

Course:Bachelor Of Arts In Literature

Institution: Kenyatta University question papers

Exam Year:2010

KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2008/2009
INSTITUTE OF OPEN LEARNING
EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS
ALT 101:
GENRES OF LITERATURE
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DATE: SATURDAY 20TH FEBRUARY 2010

TIME: 8.00 A.M. ? 10.00 A.M.

INSTRUCTIONS
ANSWER THREE QUESTIONS ONLY.

1.
What do you understand by the term Literature? Use a creative work of art of your own choice to illustrate your answer.
2.
Discuss the Literary Devices employed by Francis Imbuga in his play The Successor (give examples)
3.
Among the Ibo people proverbs are the Palm oil with which words are eaten?. Discuss the relevance of Chinua Achebe?s inclusion of folklore in his novel Things Fall Apart. (Use examples from the novel).
4.
Discuss the characteristics of a short story drawing examples from two short stories you have studied in this Unit.
5.
Basing your answer on any creative work of art you have studied, discuss how Oral Literature has influenced modern writers.
6.
What is Explication? Explicate the Poem below:

The Dictators
An odor has remained among the sugar cane:
a mixture of blood and body, a penetrating
petal that Brings nausea.
Between the coconut palms the graves are full
of ruined bones, of speechless death-rattles.
The Delicate dictator is talking
with tophats, gold braid, and collars.
The tiny palace gleams like a watch
And the rapid laughs with gloves on
Cross the corridors at times
and join the dead voices
and the blue mouths freshly buried.
The weeping cannot be seen, like a plant
whose seeds fall endlessly on the earth,
whose large blind leaves grow even without light.
blow on blow, in the ghastly water of the swamp,
with a snout full of ooze and silence.
R.B.

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