i). Classify the above genre .
Political proverb.
ii). What is the most appropriate audience for the above genre.
People in positions of leadership.
iii). What would be lost if the above genre is translated into another language.
The sound pattern such as alliteration
marto answered the question on May 28, 2019 at 06:25
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Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
The Man, His Son and The Squirrel
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Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
The Man, His Son and The Squirrel
There was a certain town whose only occupation was catching squirrels (ground squirrels). There was a man in
this town who excelled at catching squirrels. One squirrel was so smart that it eluded everyone in town. It was said
that only this man said to his son, “Come, let’s go to catch the squirrel.” They took an axe; they found the squirrel
near its hole. Then the squirrel ran and entered its hole. They searched out all the holes, then they stopped them
up. Then the man said to his son, “Don’t let the quirrel get out of its hole.” He answered, “Okay.” But one hole
wasn’t stopped up, and the squirrel escaped. When it escaped, the father came to his son and said to him, “Why
did you let it escape? If I go home now, I will be ashmed.” He grabbed the axe and struck his son. Then he went
on his way and left his son unconscious. Ants began to fill his eyeballs an his ears; vultures were circling above
him.
In the afternnon, the headman of a rich caravan arrived at the spot. When he arrived, he setp up camp. Then he got
up and went for a stroll and saw the boy. He called his slaves to take him and have him washed and shaved. The
boy recovered. The headman had no offspring. When he took the boy, he decided that he would make him his son.
He sent a message to the chief of the town, telling him that he had an offspring, that he was happy he had become
a complete man, and that he would now receive the gifts due to him.
The chief said, “This is a lie. He is not his son. If he is his son, then let him come that I can see.” Then the
headman arrived in town. The chief gave his sons horses worth ten pounds. He said, “Go and join the son of the
headman. Have a race. When you finish give these horses away” (forcing him to do the same). They did it and
they returned. the next day, the chief again gave them horses worth ten pounds. They did as the day before. They
did it five times. They ran out of horses. Then the chief said, “Indeed, it is his son I have run out of horses. If it
weren’t his son, he wouldn’t agree to let him give his own horses away to match the presents.” Then the chief
summoned his daughter. The Gralladima brought his to help. The Madaki also gave, and the Makama gave.
Altogether, four wives. The chief gave a big house. The headman came and brought twenty concubines and gave
to his son. There was continuous feasting.
Then one day the son saw his father, the one who had knocked him down with the axe because of the squirrels.
The father came to the house of his son and said, “Throw away your gown and start catching squirrels.” The
slaves of the headman said, “This is a crazy man, let us all strike him.” The boy said to him, “This is my father,
the one who sired me.” The headman said, “I have already lied to the chief. Let us keep that secret. I will give
your father wealth. Let him go home. Should he want to see you, let him come to visit you. If you want to see him,
then you can go and visit him.” The real father said he did not agree. Then the headman said, “Well then, let us go
out in the countryside.” They went. The headman unsheathed his sword. He handed it to the son, and said, “Kill
one of the two of us.” Here ends the story
Questions
(a) (i) Classify the above narrative.
(ii) What are the characteristics of the above classification?
(iii)What is the function of this narrative?
(b) Identify and illustrate any three features of oral narrative evident in the story.
(c) Give one economic activity that is undertaken by the community referred to in this narrative.
(d) Describe the character of the following:
(i) The young man
(ii) his father
(e) Whom do your think would be the most appropriate audience of this story.
(f) What is the moral lesson of this narrative?
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May 24, 2019
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Read the oral poem below and respond to the questions that follow.
A BAREFOOT BOY
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Read the oral poem below and respond to the questions that follow.
A BAREFOOT BOY
A barefoot boy! I mark him at his play…
For May is here once more, and so is he,…
His dusty trousers, rolled half to the knee,
And his bare ankles grimy, too, as they:
Cross- hatchings of the nettle, in array
Of feverish stripes, hint vividly to me
Of woody pathways winding endlessly
Along the creek, where even yesterday
He plunged his shrinking body – gasped and shook
Yet called the water ‘warm’ with never lack
Of joy. And so, half enviously I look
Upon this graceless barefoot and his track,…
His toe stubbed…, his big toe-nail knocked back
Like unto the clasp of an old pocketbook.
i) Identify and illustrate two devices that make the poem musical.
ii) How would you effectively recite line 13 of this poem?
iii) Which word would you stress in line 12? Give a reason
Date posted:
May 24, 2019
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The Short Story: Longhorn (E.D) 'When the Sun Goes Down and other stories from Africa and Beyond.
With illustrations from Sandisile Ishuma’s story 'Arrested Development' show...
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The Short Story: Longhorn (E.D) 'When the Sun Goes Down and other stories from Africa and Beyond.
With illustrations from Sandisile Ishuma’s story 'Arrested Development' show how appropriate the title
'Arrested Development' is to the story.
Date posted:
May 23, 2019
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle: Literary Appreciation
Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle: Literary Appreciation
Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow
GRUSHA : Simon!
SIMON : Is that Grusha Vasnadze?
GRUSHA : Simon!
SIMON (formally): A good morning to the young lady. I hope she is well.
GRUSHA (getting up and bowing low): A good morning to the soldier. God be thanked he has returned in good
health.
SIMON : They found better fish, so they didn’t eat me said the haddock
GRUSHA : Courage, said the kitchen boy. Good luck, said the hero
SIMON : How are things here? Was the winter bearable? The neighbor considerate?
GRUSHA : The winter was a trifle rough, the neighbor as usual Simon.
SIMON : May one ask if a certain person still dips her toes in the water when rinsing the linen?
GRUSHA : The answer is no. Because of the eyes in the bushes.
SIMON : The young lady is speaking of soldiers. Here stands the paymaster
GRUSHA : A job worth twenty piasters?
SIMON : And lodgings?
GRUSHA (with tears in her eyes) : Behind the barracks under the date trees
SIMON : Yes there. A certain person has kept her eyes open
GRUSHA : She has, Simon.
SIMON : And has not forgotten? (GRUSHA shakes her head) So the door is still on its hinges as they
say? (GRUSHA looks at him in silence and shakes her head again) What’s this? Is anything
not as it should be?
GRUSHA : Simon Shashava, I can never return to Nuka. Something has happened.
SIMON : What can have happened?
GRUSHA : For one thing, I knocked an Ironshirt down
GRUSHA : Simon Shashava, I am no longer called what I used to be called
SIMON (after a pause):I do not understand
GRUSHA : When do women change their names, Simon? Let me explain.
Nothing stands between us. Everything is just as it was. You must believe that.
SIMON : Nothing stands between us and yet there is something?
GRUSHA : How can I explain it so fast and with the stream between us?
Couldn’t you cross the bridge there?
SIMON : Maybe it’s no longer necessary
GRUSHA : It is very necessary. Come over on this side, Simon. Quick!
SIMON : Does the young lady wish to say someone has come too late?
a) Place this excerpt in its immediate context
b) Where is this scene taking place .
c) Discuss the relationship between Grusha and Simon in this excerpt.
d) 'May one ask if a certain person still dips her toes in the water when rinsing the linen?' In which other scene does
Simon use the very words to Grusha? Explain what was happening in that scene .
e) Grusha says she cannot go to Nuka because something has happened. Explain. .
f) Describe the character trait of Simon as brought out in this excerpt .
g) Explain the meaning of the following saying and word as used in the excerpt
i) They found better fish, so they didn’t eat me, said the haddock.
ii) Gaily
h) Identity and illustrate the major theme present in this excerpt
Date posted:
May 23, 2019
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Read the poem bellow and answer the question that follows
My grandmother
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She kept an antique shop-or it kept her.
Among Apostle spoons and Bristol glasses,
The faded silks, the heavy furniture,
She watched her own reflection in the brass
Salvers and silver bowls, as if to prove
Polish was all, there was no need for love.
And I remember how I once refused
To go out with her, since I was afraid.
It was perhaps a wish not to be used
Like antique objects .Though she never said
That she was hurt, I still could feel the guilt
Of that refusal, guessing how she felt.
Later, too frail to keep a shop, she put
All her best things in one long, narrow room.
The place smelt old, of things too long kept shut,
The smell of absences where shadows come
That can’t be polished. There was nothing then
To give her own reflection back again.
And when she died I felt no grief at all,
Only the guilt of what I once refused.
I walked into her room among the tall
Sideboards and cupboards-things she never used
But needed: and no finger-marks were there,
Only the new dust falling through the air.
a) Identify the persona in the above poem.
b) In note form, summarize what each stanza is talking about
c) Identify and briefly explain the use of any two images in the poem
d) What does the persona feel towards the subject matter?
e) What do the following lines mean in the poem?
'too frail to keep a shop'
'Only the new dust falling through the air'
f) Describe the tone the persona uses in the poem above
g) Explain the paradox in the line:
-things she never used
But needed:
h) Explain the persona’s sense of guilt
Date posted:
May 6, 2019
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Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow.
SECOND OLYMPUS
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SECOND OLYMPUS
From the rostrum they declaimed
On martyrs and men of high ideals
Whom they sent out
Benevorent despots to an unwilling race
Straining at the yoke
Bull dozers trampling on virgin ground
In blatant violation
They trampled down all that was strange
And filled the void
With half digested alien thoughts
They left a trail of red
Whatever their feet had passed
Oh, they did themselves fine
And struttled about the place
Self proclaimed demi- gods
From a counterfeit Olympus
One day they hurled down thunder bolts
On toiling race of earthworms
They might have rained own pebbles
To pelt the brats to death
But that was beneath them
They kept up the illusion
That they were fighting foes
Killing in the name of high ideals
At the inquest they told the world
The worms were becoming pests
Moreover, they said
They did not like wriggly things
Strange prejudice for gods.
Questions
1) Who is being talked about in this poem? Give evidence.
2) With two evidences, discuss the poet’s general attitude towards the subject of the poem.
3) What do you understand by the following three lines?
'they trample down all that was strange
And filled the void with half digested alien thoughts?'
4) Who are referred to as 'toiling race of earthworms' and why
5) Discuss two stylistic devices used in the poem. Give their effectiveness
6) Explain the significance of the title.
7) What is the tone of the poem?
Date posted:
May 6, 2019
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Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow. (20 marks)
The inmates
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The inmates
Huddled together
Cold biting their bones
Teeth chattering from the chill,
The air oppressive,
The smell offensive
They sit and they reflect
The room self contained
At the corner the ‘gents’ invites
With the nice fragrance of ammonia,
And fresh human dung,
The fresh inmates sit thoughtfully
Vermin perform a guard of honour
Saluting him with a bite here
And a bite there
‘Welcome to the world, they seem to say’
The steel lock of the door
The walls insurmountable
And the one torching tortuous bulb
Stare vacantly at him
Slowly he reflects about the consignment
That gave birth to his confinement
Locked in for conduct refinement
The reason they put him in prison
The clock ticks
But too slowly
Five years will be a long time
Doomed in the dungeon
In this hell of a cell
a) Who is the persona in the poem? (1 mark)
b) Briefly explain what the poem is about. (2 marks)
c) Identify and illustrate three aspects of style in the poem. (6 marks)
d) Give evidence from the poem which indicates the inmates are suffering. (3 marks)
e) Why is the fresh inmate in prison? (2 marks)
f) Identify and explain the mood of the new convict. (2 marks)
g) Explain the meaning of the following lines as used in the poem.
i) That gave birth to his confinement (1 mark)
ii) The room is self contained (1 mark)
h) What does the steel lock in the door and the insurmountable walls suggest? (2 marks)
Date posted:
May 3, 2019
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Read the following poem and then answer the questions that follow: Song of agony
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Read the following poem and then answer the questions that follow.
Song of Agony
I put on a clean shirt
And go to work
Which of us
Which of us will come back?
Four and twenty moons
Not seeing women
Not seeing my hand
Which of us
Which of us will die?
I put on a clean shirt
And go to work my contract
To work far away
I go beyond the mountain
Into the bush
Where the roads end
And the rivers run dry
Which of us
Which of us will come back?
Which of us
Which of us will die?
Questions
a) Who is the persona in the poem? Explain. (2 marks)
b) Briefly discuss the subject matter in this poem. (3 marks)
c) Identify two stylistic devices in the poem and show their effectiveness. (4 marks)
d) Show how the persona and the others suffer in the poem. Illustrate your answer. (4 marks)
e) What is the dominant mood in the poem? (2 marks)
f) Is the title of this poem suitable? Explain (3 marks)
g)Identify and explain one economic activity practiced by the persona’s community
Date posted:
May 3, 2019
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Explain the theme of tradition in the novel The River Between by Ngùgí wa Thiong'o
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Explain the theme of tradition in the novel The River Between by Ngùgí wa Thiong'o
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April 28, 2019
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Identify some themes based on some oral narratives
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Identify some themes based on some oral narratives
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April 23, 2019
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Describe some moral lessons derived from oral narratives appropriately.
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Describe some moral lessons derived from oral narratives appropriately.
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April 23, 2019
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State the importance of a song during narration
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State the importance of a song during narration
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April 23, 2019
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Identify some social/ socio-cultural, socio-economic and economic activities evident in some narratives.
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Identify some social/ socio-cultural, socio-economic and economic activities evident in some narratives.
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April 23, 2019
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State 5 ways of beginning a story in order to attract the attention of the audience
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State 5 ways of beginning a story in order to attract the attention of the audience
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April 23, 2019
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State and explain 4 classification of proverbs
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State and explain 4 classification of proverbs
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April 23, 2019
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Define the term translation and transcription in orature
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Define the term translation and transcription in orature
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April 23, 2019
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Identify the things lost when a tongue-twister is translated
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Identify the things lost when a tongue-twister is translated
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April 23, 2019
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List the key aspects of plot commonly evident in narratives
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List the key aspects of plot commonly evident in narratives
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April 23, 2019
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Highlight the key features of short forms; proverbs, riddles, tongue-twisters, puns and jokes:
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Highlight the key features of short forms; proverbs, riddles, tongue-twisters, puns and jokes:
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April 23, 2019
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Similarities between tongue twisters and proverbs.
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Similarities between tongue twisters and proverbs.
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April 23, 2019
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