Creative Writing Question Paper

Creative Writing

Course:Bachelor Of Arts In Literature

Institution: Kenyatta University question papers

Exam Year:2007

KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2006/2007
FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS
ALT 206: CREATIVE WRITING
DATE: TUESDAY, 20TH FEBRUARY 2007
TIME: 10.30A.M. -12.30 P.M.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Answer any three questions. Avoid duplication of material.
1. "Great Master Artists have bequeathed on us great masterpieces of literature without
going through a creative writing course. The course is therefore unnecessary in this
commercial world".
Do you agree? Give reasons for your stand.
2.
How has a knowledge of any two of the following, helped you as a creative Artist?
a.
The Credo
b.
The One-act play
c.
The Writer's journal
3.
Read the following poem and discuss any three poetic elements that the author uses to
paint the growing destruction of life.
LONDON - by William Blake.
I wander thro' each charter'd street,
Near where the charter'd Thames does flow,
And mark in every face I meet,
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
In every cry of every Man,
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In every Infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.

?
2
How the chimney-sweeper's cry,
Every black'ning church appals;
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And the hapless soldiers sigh,
Runs in blood down place walls.
But most thro' midnight streets I hear,
How the youthful harlot's curse,
Blasts the new-born infant's tear,
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And blights with plagues the marriage hearse.
4.
What do you consider to be the difference between Drama and Fiction?
How has this consideration helped in your creative work this semester?
5.
EITHER
(a)
In a small town at the base of a huge volcanic mountain a middle aged man and
his wife (also middle aged) have been chained hand and foot by marauding
thugs who have already left. There is no escape and no one can help them. The
entire population has been ordered out of the town because the volcano is about
to erupt. The earth trembles; trembles again as the forces build up in the
bowels of the earth.
Write a short STICOMYTHIA covering the period between the noisy, frantic
escape of the townspeople to the moment the mountain erupts and the wide
sheet of molten lava begins to roar down the mountainside towards the MAN
and his WIFE
OR
(b)
Write a poem on, any one of the following:
(i)
A bee
(ii)
The hand
(iii)
Floods
(iv)
Flowers
(v)
Rainbow
6.
What factors help the writer in crafting an effective short story?
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