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Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow: Repentant Yesterday my emotions burst like a dam and flowed violently onto your innocent self. Today deluged with a deep sense of...

Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow:
Repentant
Yesterday my emotions
burst like a dam
and flowed violently
onto your innocent self.

Today deluged with
a deep sense of regret
I hold out my hand
a gesture of reconciliation.

Seeking to forget
The galling bitterness
Of that regrettable moment
When I caused you pain.
A.D. Amateshe.

i) Describe the rhyme scheme in this poem.


ii). Which word would you stress in line 2 of the first stanza?

a) What tone would you use to recite the poem and why?
(b) For each of the following words, write another word that is pronounced the same.
Sale:
Boos:
Cymbal:
Douse:
Morning:

(c) (i) Indicate and name the sound patterns used in the following proverbs:
(i) Better beg than steal.


(ii) Health is better than wealth.


(iii) Time and tide wait for no man.


(iv) Money makes money.


(ii) Give an illustration of the riddling process.

(d) Imagine you are narrating a trickster narrative to children.What would you do to make the performance interesting? Explain.

(e) For each of the following sets of words, underline the odd one out according to the pronunciation of the underlined sounds.

Knot Weapon Saw Breathe
Note Weed Sow Breath
Not Wed So Breadth

Answers

johnson
a).
i) a b c d e f g h f a f h ( it is ( irregular
ii) burst( shows the violence / force / gravity with which the personas emotions came out.
iii) Reconciliation ( to express the personas regret for having caused pain and his need for forgiveness.

b).
(i) sail
(ii) booze
(iii) symbol
(iv) dowse
(v) mourning

(c)(i)
•better,beg ~ assonance / alliteration
•health, wealth ~ assonance
•time, tide assonance / consonance / alliteration
•money, money ~ alliteration

(ii) Challenger: Take a riddle/ I have a riddle / Riddle, riddle!
Respondent: Let it come / Riddle come / Let us have it.
Challenger: I go this way, I go that way
Respondent: Pathlets
Challenger: No. Give me a present.
Respondent: I give you a cow.
Challenger: I accept. The answer is a hunters tracks.

(d)
-Audibility~be clear and audible so that you can be heard.
-Use correct articulation so that the story can be understood.
-Use gestures to show for example, how big or small something is.
-Dramatize the characters for entertainment.
-Involve your audience, for example, in singing and answering questions.
-Choose appropriate register / to understand.
-Begin with a riddle or tongue twister to captivate the audience.
-Tonal variation vary tone to bring out different characters in the story.
-Mention eye contact to ensure they concentrate and follow the story.

e) Note; Weed; Saw; Breathe
johnson mwenjera answered the question on February 16, 2018 at 11:36

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