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Lite 310:Stylistics April 2011 Question Paper

Lite 310:Stylistics April 2011

Course:Bachelor Of Education Arts

Institution: Kabarak University question papers

Exam Year:2011

KABARAK UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS
2010/2011 ACADEMIC YEAR
FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF EDUCATION ARTS
COURSE CODE: LITE 310

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. This paper consists of THREE sections, A, B, and C
2. Answer ALL questions from SECTION A and ONLY ONE questions from SECTION B and C.
3. Read the instructions given in each section.

SECTION A
1. (a) What is ‘Style’ in literature? (3 mks)
(b) Briefly discuss the major types of Rhetoric. (6 mks)
(c) Make a destination between international fallacy and Affective fallacy as brought
out by the American New criticism of 1941. (6 mks)

2. (a) With illustrates from literary texts, identify and explain the aspects of form and content
in stylistics.
(b) What do you understand by the following terms? (6 mks)
(i) Register
(ii) Dialect
(iii) Diction

SECTION B
3. What is deviation in stylistics?
Describe and illustrate any four types of deviation in literary texts. (20 mks)

4. Using clearly illustrated examples, define the following terms; (20 mks)
(a) Ivory
(b) Sarcasm
(c) Symbolism
(d) Metonymy

SECTION C
5. Give a stylistic analysis of either the following poem (I) and passage (II) (20 mks)
a) Poem (I) I MET A THIEF B/AUSTIN BUKENYA
OR
b) Passage (II) THE MARTYR BY NGUGI WA THIONGO

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