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Clt 103: Language Use In Literature Question Paper
Clt 103: Language Use In Literature
Course:Bachelor Of Education (Arts)
Institution: South Eastern Kenya University question papers
Exam Year:2016
SOUTH EASTERN KENYA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2015/2016
MAY-AUGUST 2016 (PRACTICUM) SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR
THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF EDUCATION (ARTS)
CLT 103: LANGUAGE USE IN LITERATURE
DATE: 18TH AUGUST, 2016 TIME: 11.00 – 1.00 PM
Answer THREE questions only. Question ONE is compulsory
1. (a) Discuss how language is used in Oral Literature performance. (20 Marks)
(b) What are the major differences between animal communication and human language?
(10 marks)
2. Discuss why writers find it appropriate to use figures of speech with illustrations from any
stories you have read. (20 marks)
3. Explain the use of language in the following poem. (20 marks)
Ah, Are you Digging on My Grave?
“Ah, are you digging on my grave,
My loved one? – planting rue?”
“No; yesterday he went to wed
One of the brightest wealth has bred.
“It cannot hurt her now,” he said,
“That I should not be true.”
“Then who is digging on my grave?
My nearest dearest kin?”
“Ah, no: they sit and think, „What use!
What good will planting flowers produce?
No tendance of her mound can loose
Her spirit from Death?s gin?”
“But someone digs upon my grave?
My enemy? – plodding sly?”
-“Nay: when she heard you had passed the Gate
That shuts on all flesh soon or late,
She thought you no more worth her hate,
And cares not where you lie.”
“Then who is digging on my grave?
Say – since I have not guessed!”
-“O it is, my mistress dear,
Your little dog, who still leaves near,
And much I hope my movements here
Have not disturbed your rest?
“Ah, yes! You dig upon my grave…
Why flashed it not on me
That one true heart was left behind!
What feeling do we ever find
To equal among human kind
A dog?s fidelity!”
“Mistress, I dug upon your grave
To bury a bone, in case
I should be hungry near this spot
When passing on my daily trot.
I am sorry, but I quite forgot
It was your resting-place.”
(Thomas Hardy)
4. Basing your answer on one of the novels you have read, comment on the writer?s use of
language. (20 marks)
5. “Language use is central to the derivation of meaning in poetry.”Do you agree? Illustrate
your answer. (20 marks)
6. The language of drama is unique in that it addresses itself to the audience” Discuss.
(20 marks)
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