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Introduction To Literary Genres Question Paper
Introduction To Literary Genres
Course:Bachelor Of Arts In Literature
Institution: Kenyatta University question papers
Exam Year:2011
KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2010/2011
INSTITUTE OF OPEN LEARNING (IOL)
EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS AND BACHELOR OF
EDUCATION (ARTS)
ALT 101: INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY GENRES
DATE:
THURSDAY 3RD FEBRUARY 2011
TIME: 11.00 A.M. - 1.00 P.M.
INSTRUCTIONS:
? Answer THREE Question only
? Question ONE is Compulsory. Avoid duplication of material used as examples.
Q.1)
What differentiates literature from other kinds of writing? Explain supporting your answer with examples drawn from your extensive reading. (26 marks)
Q.2)
Discuss as elaborately as possible why we need to study literature. 22 marks)
Q.3)
Using the poem below, demonstrate your understanding of the following terms:
i)
Diction and poetic voice
(6 marks)
ii)
Imagery
(6 marks)
iii)
Rhythm
(6 marks)
iv)
Meaning
(4 marks)
Zulu Girl
When in the sun the hot red acres smolder,
Down where the sweating gang its labour plies,
A girl flings down her hoe, and from her shoulder
Unslings her child tormented by flied.
She takes him to a ring of shadow pooled,
By thorn trees; purpled with the blood of ticks
While her sharp nails, in slow caresses ruled,
Prowl through his hair with sharp electric clicks.
His sleepy mouth, plugged by the heavy nipple,
Tugs like a puppy, grunting as he feeds:
Through his frail nerves her own deep languors ripple
Like a broad river sighing through its reeds.
Yet in that drowsy stream her flesh imbibes
An old unquenched unsmotherable heat-
The curbed ferocity of beaten tribes,
The sullen dignity of their defeat.
He body looms above him like a hill,
Within whose shade a village lies at rest,
Or the first cloud so terrible and still
That bears the coming harvest in its breast.
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Q.4)
Discuss three aspects of prose writing basing your answer on how they function in either the novel or the short story. (22 marks)
Q.5)
Using Imbuga?s Betrayal in the City or Aminata, or Ruganda?s The Burdens, illustrate the seven components of their plot. (22 marks)
Q.6)
a)
Either: ?Waiyaki in The River Between is a failure?. Discuss. (22 marks)
Or
b)
The failure of Okonkwo is the failure of the whole society?. Discuss. (22 marks)
Q.7)
Using examples drawn from both oral and written literature, explain why it is difficult to define literary genres. (22 marks)
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