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Introduction To Literary Genre Question Paper
Introduction To Literary Genre
Course:Bachelor Of Arts (Language & Literary Studies)
Institution: Kenyatta University question papers
Exam Year:2008
KENY ATT A UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2008/2009
FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF
BACHELOR OF EDUCATION AND BACHELOR OF ARTS
DATE: Thursday 27thNovember 2008
TIME: 11.00am-1.00pm
Instructions:
Answer any THREE questions
1.
What is literature and why, in your view, would you consider it important to
study literature?
2.
Either:
a)
Select any two short stories from V. Kibera's An Anthology of E.A. Short
Stories or Encounter from Africa and discuss any three major themes they
deal with.
Or
b)
Discuss the characteristics
of the Short Story, referring to at least three
Short Stories from Encounter from Africa or An Anthology of E.A. Short
Stories.
Or
Either
3.
a)
With any four poems from A.D. Amateshe's
An Anthology of E.A. Poetry
and Poems from E.A. by D. Cook & D. Rubadiri, demonstrate
how they
justify the genre of Poetry.
Or
b)
Explicate the Poem below. (see I Speak/or the Bush)
For Question 3 b):
I Speak for the Bush
Everett Standa
When my friend sees me
He swells and pants like a frog
Bcause I talk the wisdom of the bush!
He says we from the bush
Do not understand civilised ways
For we tell our women
To keep the hem of their dresses
Below the knee.
We from the bush, my friend insists,
Do not know how to 'enjoy':
When we come to the civilised city,
Like· nuns, we stay away from the nightclubs
Where. women belong to no men
And men belong to no women
And these. civilised people
Quarrel and fight like hungry lions!
But, my friend, why do men
With crippled legs, lifeless eyes,
. Wooden legs, empty .stomachs
Wander about the streets
Of this civilised world?
So that my eyes may not
See those whose houses have no walls
But emptiness all around;
Show me the wax you use
To seal your ears
To stop hearing the cry Of the hungry;
Teach me the new wisdom
Which tells men
To talk about money and not love,
When they meet women;
Tell your God to convert
Me to the faith of the indifferent,
The faith of those
Who will never listen until
They are shaken with blows.
I speak for the bush:
You speak for the civilised -
Will you hear me?
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I Speak for the Bush
Everett Standa
When my friend sees me
He swells and pants like a frog
Bcause I talk the wisdom of the bush!
He says we from the bush
Do not understand civilised ways
For we tell our women
To keep the hem of their dresses
Below the knee.
We from the bush, my friend insists,
Do not know how to 'enjoy':
When we come to the civilised city,
Like nuns, we stay away from the nightclubs
Where women belong to no men
And men belong to no women
And these. civilised people
Quarrel and fight like hungry lions!
But, my friend, why do men
With crippled legs, lifeless eyes,
Wooden legs, emptystomachs
Wander about the streets
Of this civilised world?
So that my eyes may not
.,.
See those whose houses have no walls
But emptiness all around;
Show me the wax you use
To seal your ears
To stop hearing the cry of the hungry;
Teach me the new wisdom
Which tells men
,
To talk about money and not love,
When they meet women;
Tell your God to convert
Me to the faith of the indifferent,
The faith of those
Who will never listen until
They are shaken with blows.
I speak for the bush:
You speak for the civilised -
Will you hear me?
.?.
4.
As an example of genre of prose, discuss the relevance of Chinua Achebe's
Things Fall Apart to an African Student.
5.
Discuss the relevance of Oral Literature in Society.
Either
6.
a)
With reference to texts studied in this unit, discuss the elements of prose.
Or
b)
Discuss the major similarities between one novel an one other short story
discussed in this unit.
Either
7.
a)
Referring closely to Shakespeare's
Much Ado About Nothing, discus
the elements of drama.
Or
b)
Define in your own words what you understand by the term drama
Discuss with reference to language use in Imbuga' s The Successor.
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