Critical Reading And Response Question Paper

Critical Reading And Response

Course:Bachelor Of Arts In Literature

Institution: Kenyatta University question papers

Exam Year:2010

KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2010/2011
KU-PUEA DEGREE PROGRAMMES
END OF SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF
EDUCATION (ARTS AND SCIENCE)

ALT 100: CRITICAL READING AND RESPONSE

DATE: Monday 6th December, 2010

TIME: 11.00 a.m. ? 1.00 p.m.
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INSTRUCTION:

Answer Question ONE and any other TWO.

1. (a) Giving relevant examples, explain what you understand by literary language (12 marks)
(b) Critically analyse four components of a literary text in reference to a novel of your
choice

(18 marks)

2. Literature is often said to be a reflection of social, cultural and historical realities. How is
this true of Chinua Achebe?s Things Fall Apart?

(20 marks)
3. Discuss two major themes in Francis Imbuga?s Aminata.

(20 marks)
4. What is the significance of conflict in the overall aesthetic achievement of a literary text?
Illustrate your answer with a short story you have read in this course.
(20 marks)
5. Make a critical analysis of the poem below, showing the relationship between form and
content.

(20 marks)

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The Village Well
By this well,
Where fresh waters still quietly whisper
As when I
First accompanied Mother and filled my baby gourd,
By this well
Where many an evening its clean water cleaned me;
This silent well
Dreaded haunt of the long haired Musambwa,
Who basked
In the mid-day sun reclining on the rock
Where I now sit
Welling up with many poignant memories

This spot,
Which has rung with the purity of child laughter;
This spot,
Where eye spoke secretly to responding eye;
This spot,
Where hearts pounded madly in many a breast;

By this well,
Over-hung by leafy branches of sheltering trees
I first noticed her.
I saw her in the cool of a red, red evening.
I saw her
As if I had not seen her a thousand times before.

By this well
My eyes asked for love, and my heart went mad.
I stuttered.
And murmured my first words of love
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And cupped,
With my hands, the intoxication that were her breasts.

In this well,
In the clear waters of this whispering well,
The silent moon
Witnessed with a smile our inviolate vows,
The kisses
That left us weak and breathless.

It is dark.
It is dark by the well that still whispers
It is darker,
It is utter darkness in the heart that bleeds
By this well,
Where magic has evaporated but memories linger.

Of damp death
The rotting foliage reeks,
And the branches
Are grotesque talons of hungry vultures,
For she is dead.
The one I first loved by this well.

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