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Introduction To Poetry B(Litt 112) Question Paper

Introduction To Poetry B(Litt 112)

Course:Education

Institution: Kenya Methodist University question papers

Exam Year:2013

TIME : 2 HOURS

INSTRUCTIONS
Answer any three questions
Question One
Discuss the following poetic devices, use relevant examples to support your answers (20 Marks)
Rhetoric question
Repetition
Similes
Personification

Question Two
Discuss the importance of poetry to society. (20 Marks)
Question Three
Explain the following types of poems
Epic
Ballard
Sonnet
Elegy

Question Three
Distinguish between the following literary terms
Taboo and Euphemism
Assonance and consonance
Irony and satire

Question Four
With reference to the poem Wedding eve by Everett Standa, discuss the issues addressed by the poet and explain the relevance of this poem to the society today. (20 Marks)
Wedding Eve
By Everett Standa
Should I
Or should I not
Take the oath to love
Forever
This person I know little about?
Does she love me
Or my car
Or my future
Which I know little about
Will she continue to love me
When the future she saw in me
Crumbles and fades into nothing
Leaving the naked me
To love without hope?
Will that smile she wears
Last through the hazards to come
When fate strikes
Across the dreams of tomorrow?
Or will she
Like the clever passenger in a faulty plane
Wear her life jacket
And jump out to save her life
Leaving me to crash into the unknown?
What magic can I use
To see what lies beneath
Her angel face and well knit hair
To see her hopes and dreams
Before I take the oath
To love forever?
We are both wise chess players
She makes a move
I make a move
And we trap each other in our secret dreams
Hoping to win against each other.

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