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Lite 111: Introduction To Poetry Question Paper

Lite 111: Introduction To Poetry 

Course:Bachelor Of Education Arts

Institution: Kabarak University question papers

Exam Year:2014



KABARAK
UNIVERSITY

UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS
2013/2014 ACADEMIC YEAR
FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF EDUCATION ART
LITE 111: INTRODUCTION TO POETRY
DAY: WEDNESDAY




DATE: 9/04/2014
TIME:
8:30AM – 10:30AM

STREAM:Y1S1
INSTRUCTIONS:
Answer 3 questions in total. Question 1 is compulsory.

1. Using relevant examples from poems you know, discuss the use of Imagery in poetry
using the following guideline:
a) Visual Images
b) Auditory Images
c) Gustatory Images
d) Olfactory Images
e) Tactile Images
f) Motile Images
(5 marks each X 6 = 30 marks)

2. a) Explain the meaning of the term “Poetic License.”


(4 marks)
b) Explain with illustrations how poets manipulate language at the following levels:
i.
Phonology
ii.
Graphology
iii.
Grammar
iv.
Lexis
v.
Semantics
(4 marks each X 4 = 16 marks)

3. Discuss with adequate illustrations the meaning of the following terms used in poetry:
a) Tone
b) Mood
c) Attitude

4. Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow:
I Speak for the Bush.


When my friend sees me

He swells and pants like a frog

Because I talk the wisdom of the bush!

He says we from the bush

Do not understand civilized ways

For we tell our women

To keep the hem of their dresses

Below the knee

We from the Bush, my friend insists,

Do not know how to ‘enjoy’:

When we come to the civilized city,

Like nuns, we stay away from nightclubs

Where women belong to no men

And men belong to no women

And these civilized people

Quarrel and fight like hungry lions!


But, my friend, why do men

With crippled legs, lifeless eyes,

Wooden legs, empty stomachs

Wander about the streets

Of this civilized world?


Teach me, my friend the trick,

So that my eyes may not

See those whose houses have no walls

But emptiness all around;

Show me the wax you use

To seal your ears

To stop hearing the cry of the hungry;


Teach me the wisdom

Which tells men

To talk about money and not love,

When they meet women;


Tell your God to convert

Me to the faith of indifferent,

The faith of those

Who will never listen until



They are shaken with blows.





I speak for the bush:

You speak for the civilized-

Will you hear me?







Everett Standa.
a). In one short paragraph, clearly explain in your own words the subject matter of the poem.











(4 marks)
b). Identify, illustrate and comment on the effectiveness of any three aspects of style used in
the poem.








(9 Marks)

c). Who is the persona, and what impression does the reader get about his or her attitude towards
the friend?








(3 Marks)
d). Comment on the poet’s use of punctuation marks in the first and last stanza.
(2 Marks)
e). In your own opinion, what would you cite as two possible consequences of an individual
person’s ability to “enjoy” himself or herself in the modern society?

(2 Marks)

5. Read the following poem then respond to the questions that follow:

1) Read the following poem then answer the questions that follow:

A Sudden Storm
The wind howls, the trees sway,
The loose house-top sheets clatter and clang,
The open window shuts with a bang.
And the sky makes night of day.

Helter-skelter the parents run,
Pressed with a thousand minor cares,
“Hey, you there! Pack the house-wares!”
And “where on earth’s my son?”

Home skip the little children:
“Where have you been, you naughty boy?”
The child can feel nothing but joy,
For he loves the approach of the rain.


The streets clear, the houses fill,
The noise gathers as the children shout
To rival the raging wind without,
And naught that can move is still.

A bright flash!- a lighted plain;
Then, from the once blue heavens,
Accompanied by noise that deafens,
Steadily pours the rain.

(Pius Oleghe)

a) How does the poet illustrate the gradual approach of the storm?
Use two examples to illustrate your answer.


(4 marks)
b) What are the different reactions to the storm by:
i.
Parents
ii.
Children
(6 marks)
c) Which lines of each stanza rhyme and what is the effect of the rhyming lines?
(4 marks)
d) How does the poet create the effect of a noisy thunderstorm as it arrives?
(6 marks)






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