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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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