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a) A race, running competition
Illustration: - How you won that race
How you captured through the tape e.t.c.
b) 1 mk for identification 1 mk for illustration 2 mks
i) He’s a physically involved e.g. 'lurched with' 'As I have taught you' you'
- 'My sinews tightened'
2 mks
He’s emotionally involved
e.g. 'Was not all my thrill'
'Did not my shout tell of the triumphant ecstasy 2 mks
c) The relationship is that of:
- Instructor - Learner 'The thrill of a thousand races in your blood'
- Father - Son
- Teacher - Student
'As I have taught you to run boy'
'Think only of the goal'
'Dig your starting holes deep and firm” e.t.c. 4 mks
b) Features of style:
i) Repetition
- Do you remember?
- Run
ii) Rhetorical questions
Do you remember?
How you won
That last race……..?
iii) Exaggeration
- A thousand races
Any two styles. 1 mk for identification 1 mk for illustration
marto answered the question on March 21, 2019 at 07:19
- Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow.
While outside
The mourners cried
Louder than the Orphan.
By Grace Birabwa Isharaza.
1. What is the poem about? (3mks)
2. Comment on the title of the poem. (2mks)
3. What is the attitude of the persona towards the mourners? Explain your answer.(4mks) 4. Paraphrase the message in the fourth stanza. (3mks)
5. Explain the following lines as used in the poem (2mks)
(i) They cried dutiful tears for the deceased.
(ii) And there was Light in the darkness of the hut
6 Comment on the tone of the poem (2mks)
7. Identify and illustrate two stylistic devices used in the poem. (4mks)
Date posted: March 21, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the poem and answer the questions which follow.(Solved)
Read the poem and answer the questions which follow.
THE MARKET WOMAN
The market woman
Strong sun
and the market woman in the shade
of the mulemba
- Orange, my lady
a nice little orange!
Light plays in the town
its burning game
of brightness and shade
and life plays
in worried hearts
its game of blind-man’s buff.
The market woman
who sells fruit
sells herself.
- My Lady
orange, nice little orange!
Buy sweets oranges
buy from me too the bitterness
of this torture
of life without life
buy from me the childhood of the spirit
this rosebud
that did not open
start still impelled to a beginning.
Orange, my lady!
I exhausted the smiles
with which I cried
I no longer cry.
And there goes my hopes
as did the blood of my children
mingled with the dust of roads
buried on plantations
and my sweat
soaked in the cotton threads.
As effort was offered to
the security of machines
the beauty of tarmac roads
of tall buildings
comfort or ricy gentlemen
happiness dispersed in towns
and I
became a part
of the very problems of existence.
There go the oranges
as I offered myself to alcohol
to anaesthetize myself
and stupefied myself to live.
I gave all.
Even my pain
and the poetry of my naked breasts
I gave to the poets.
Now I myself am selling me
Buy oranges!
my lady!
Take me to the markets of life
My price is only one: - Blood.
Perhaps selling myself
I posses my self
- Buy oranges!
From Scared Hope by Agostino Neto,
Tanzania Publishing House, 1974, 12 - 14
QUESTIONS
(a)Identify the three voices in this poem. 3mks
(b) What is the Poet’s attitude to the market woman? 2mks
(c)What is the theme of the poem? 3mks
d) Describe the feeling of the market woman. 3mks
e) Identify the lines spoken by the persona in his role as an observer. 3mks
f) Explain the meaning of the following lines. 6mks
(i) I exhausted the similes
With which I cried
I no longer cry
(ii) Even my pain
and the poetry of my naked breasts
I gave to the poets
……………………………………………………………………………………………My price is only one: - Blood
Date posted: March 21, 2019. Answers (1)
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- Akawala akawala kaawa akaawa ka wa (Buganda)
A girl who gave kaawa bitter coffee;where did she come from?(Solved)
Akawala akawala kaawa akaawa ka wa (Buganda)
A girl who gave kaawa bitter coffee;where did she come from?
a)Identify the genre above.
b)With illustrations identify any aspect of style used in the above genre.
c)Give your own example of the genre above.
d)briefly explain any two functions of the genre.
Date posted: October 5, 2018. Answers (1)
- Read the following excerpt and answer the questions that follow “My sister Vera and I have had differences, but I have no doubt....(Solved)
Read the following excerpt and answer the questions that follow
“My sister Vera and I have had differences, but I have no doubt that she would have made an excellent mother - much than I ever was. The children love her. So it is with confidence that I leave every aspect of their care in her capable hands with
the assistance of whichever family members she chooses for I appreciate that the nature of her calling may not allow her to
establish her own home. I want her to know that I love my children though my way of expressing it may not have satisfied
her. I expressed it by making sure that they will never lack in the things I believe in. it is true that money cannot buy
happiness or I would have been happy; buy it can buy pretty well everything else. OK, it cannot buy life either - for I am
dying and will die in the slowest most painful way possible, but I am not sorry for the way I have lived; for I found out
however late, that everything, everything has a price. This is the price of living the way I have lived. So be it; I will pay it”
Vera wept afresh when the will was read out. What could make anyone so bitter? They had had good loving parents and all
her brothers and her other sister were happy warm-hearted people with ordinary faults, but not with such bitterness - the
bitterness of gall - and that in someone so beautiful! She had been only thirty- three and until the last six months of her illness
she had still been the loveliest person Vera had ever seen.
Questions
1. Place this excerpt in its immediate context. (4mks)
2. What is Becky?s attitude towards the life she lived according to the excerpt? (3mks)
3. From your knowledge of the text, who are Becky?s children referred to in the excerpt? (2mks)
4. State and illustrate the character trait of:
· Becky (2mks)
· Vera (2mks)
5. Identify and illustrate two stylistic devices used in the excerpt (4mks)
6. State and illustrate two thematic concerns brought out in the excerpt (4mks)
7. From your knowledge of novel, write in note form three things that Becky believed in. (3mks)
8. Rewrite the following sentence according to the instructions given, (l mk)
Vera wept afresh when the will was read out (Add a question tag)
Date posted: October 3, 2018. Answers (1)
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- THE TEARS OF A SLAVE
Adieu, to my native shore,
To toss on the boisterous wave;
To enjoy my kindred no more,
But to weep – the tears...(Solved)
THE TEARS OF A SLAVE
Adieu, to my native shore,
To toss on the boisterous wave;
To enjoy my kindred no more,
But to weep – the tears of a SLAVE!
By the sons of freemen I’m borne,
To the land of the free and the brave;
From my wife and children I’m torn,
To weep – the tears of a SLAVE!
When, I think on mother and friends,
And the joy their countenance gave;
Ah! How my sad bosom it rends,
While weeping – the tears of a SLAVE!
Ah! Now, I must labour for gold,
To pamper the pride of the knave;
Ah! Now, I am shackled and sold
To weep – the tears of a SLAVE!
Keen sorrow so presses my heart,
That often I sigh for my grave;
While feeling the lash-cruel smart!
And weeping – the tears of a SLAVE!
Ye sons, of the free and wise,
Your tender compassion I crave;
Alas! can your bosoms despise
The pitiful tears of a SLAVE!
Can a land of Christians so pure!
Let demons of slavery rave!
Can the angel of mercy endure,
The pitiless – tears of a SLAVE!
Just heaven, to thee I appeal;
Hast thou not the power to save?
In mercy the power reveal,
Questions.
1. Who is the persona in the poem? (2mks)
2. What is happening to the persona in the first stanza? (3 marks)
3. Identify the dominant two styles used in the poem and state their effectiveness? (4mks)
4. What is the tone of the poem? (2mks)
5. Who do you think is described as ‘knave’ in the fourth stanza? Give a reason for your answer. (2mks)
6. In what way does the persona question religion? (2mks)
7. What solution does the poet offer that will end slavery? (2mks)
8. Explain the meaning of the following lines as used in the poem. (3mks)
a. From my wife and children I’m torn.
b. Keen sorrow so presses my heart.
Date posted: July 25, 2018. Answers (1)