Stylistics And Literary Techniques Question Paper

Stylistics And Literary Techniques

Course:Bachelor Of Arts In Literature

Institution: Kenyatta University question papers

Exam Year:2007

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KENYA TT A UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY
EXAMINATIONS
2007/2008·
FIRST SEMESTER
EXAMINATION
FOR THE DEGREE BACHELOR
OF
EDUCATION
AND BACHELOR
OF ARTS
ALT 300:
STYLISTICS
AND LITERARY TECHNIQUES
DATE: Wednesday, 28th November, 2007
TIME: 8.00 a.m. - 10.00 a.m.
]£NSTRUCTIONS:
a)
Answer THREE questions, at least ONE from EACH section.
10)
Avoid repetition of material.
JSECTION A
1.
Stylistics is merely modem rhetoric".
To what extent is contemporary literary
criticism and the study of Literature in general dependent upon oratorical
precepts.
2.
"A writer cannot create an entirely new language. He has to respect the
fundamental rules of the language he uses". Defining clearly what is meant by
creative use of language and poetic license, discuss.
3.
Explain in what ways semantics helps us to understand the relationship between
form and content in a work of art.
4.
Using clearly illustrated examples, define any THREE of the following terms:
a)
Collocation

b)
Foregrounding
c)
Semantic redundancy
d)
SYmbolism
e)
Graph logical deviation
f)
Irony
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5.
What are suprasegmentals?
Why is a working knowledge of suprasegmentals so
important in the study of poetry and drama?
6.
Write an essay entitled "Lexical Variation in Literature",
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SECTIONB
Present a stylistic analysis of the following poem orland passage.
7.
Nightfall in Soweto
Nightfall 'Comeslike
a dreaded disease
Seeping through the pores
of a healthy body
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and ravaging it beyond repair.
A murderer's hand
lurking in the shadows,
Clasping the dagger,
strikes down the helpless victim.
I am a victim
~ am slaughtered
every night in the streets
I am cornered by the fear
gnawing at my timid heart
in my helplessness I languish
Man has ceased to be man
Man has become beast
Man has become prey
I am tbeprey
I am the quarry to be run down
by the marauding beMt
let loose by cruel nightfall
from his cage of death.
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·...
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Where is my refuge?
where am Isafe?
Not in my matchbox house
where Ibarricade myself against nightfall.
I tremble at his crunching footsteps,
I quake at his deafening knock at the door.
"Open upl" he barks like a rapid dog
thirsty for my blood.
. Nightfall! Nightfall!
you are my mortal enemy.
But why were you ever created?
Why cant it be daytime?
Daytime forever more?

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