Stylistics And Literary Techniques Question Paper

Stylistics And Literary Techniques

Course:Bachelor Of Arts In Literature

Institution: Kenyatta University question papers

Exam Year:2009

KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2008/2009
SECOND SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR
OF ARTS AND BACHELOR OF EDUCATION
ALT 300: STYLISTICS AND LITERARY TECHNIQUES

DATE: Wednesday 26th August, 2009
TIME: 11.00 a.m. ? 1.00 p.m.

INSTRUCTIONS
Answer any THREE (3) questions. Do not use same materials more than once.

Q1.
Discuss, with illustration, what you understand by the relationship between form
and content in literature.

Q2. Define in your own words what you understand by the term ?Stylistics?. Compare
your definition with any other two definitions from scholars mentioned during
your studies in this unit. Draw examples from works of art covered in this unit to
support your answer.

Q3. Discuss the evolution of Stylistics. Compare and contrast ?Rhetorics? with
?Contemporary Stylistics?. Draw your examples from works of art you have
studied since you registered to be a student in the Department of Literature

Q4.
?Chinua Achebe?s Arrow of God approximates stylistic excellence?. Discuss.

Q5.
Discuss how you would rate the stylistic value of A Grain of Wheat.

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Q6.
Attempt a stylistic appreciation of the following poem:

Minstrel Man
Because
my
mouth

Is wide with laughter
And
my
throat

Is deep with song,

You do not think

I suffer after

I have held my pain
So
long.

Because
my
mouth

Is wide with laughter,

You do not hear

My inner cry,
Because
my
feet

Are gay with dancing,

You do not know

I die

LANGSTON HUGHES

Q7.
Attempt a stylistic explication of the following poem:

The Dictators

An odor has remained among the sugar cane:

a mixture of blood and body, a penetrating

petal that brings nausea.

Between the coconut palms the graves are full

of ruined bones, of speechless death-rattles.

The delicate dictator is talking

with tophats, gold braid, and collars.

The tiny palace gleams like a watch

And the rapid laughs with gloves on

Cross the corridors at times

and join the dead voices

and the blue mouths freshly buried.

The weeping cannot be seen, like a plant

whose seeds fall endlessly on the earth,

whose large blind leaves grow even without light.

Hatred has grown scale on scale,

blow on blow, in the ghastly water of the swamp,

with a snout full of ooze and silence.

R.B.

Q8. Define the following figures of speech.

i)
Metonymy
ii)
Metaphor
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iii)
Irony
iv)
Hyperbole
v)
Sarcasm
vi)
Satire
vii)
Lampoon
viii) Litote
Discuss any five of the above figures of speech in depth drawing your examples
from either Chinua Achebe?s Things Fall Apart or Francis Imbuga?s
The Successor.

9.
Define the following terms:
1) Parallelism
2) Repetition

Discuss these two terms in relation to the poem below.

I beg You
By Laban Erapu

I beg you,
If you feel something like love for me
Not to let me know it now
When I feel nothing so certain for you
Wait until you?ve conquered my pride
By pretending not to care for me.

I beg you,
If you think your eyes will give you away
Not to give me that longing look
When you know it will force the moment
Wait until our hearts have settled
Then put your head on my shoulder.

I beg you
Not to let us surrender to passion,
Until our liking has grown to love
Lets stop and look back
Lets draw apart and sigh

???????????.
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