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a)The poem is about
-The destruction of a woman's humble abode by a bulldozer driven by a town/ city council askari;
-Who seems to be under instruction and not to even think about the suffering person whose house he demolishes;
- Yet he himself seems to live in deplorable conditions with a family of five in a single roomed house.
b)Sound patterns in the poem include
i)Alliteration
-hard hatred
-boxes
-heard her pleas
ii)Assonance
-in his cabin
-heard her
-din of the machine
c)What is the effect of repeating the words
-The effect of repeating words is to pass the intended meaning, message e.g 'nice smooth surface' brings out the meaning that nothing is left behind or is salvaged,
-and in the same breath brings out the sarcasm to show how uncaring the driver is.
d)The irony is that
the driver demolishes the poor woman's meagre shelter without feeling,
yet he himself is not living a better life as he is in poor living quarters- one roomed house with a family of five.
e)Personification is seen in the blade chewing up the woman's meagre shelter;
It has been effective because it is able to bring out the image of a person, who eats up everything set before him without leaving behind even a tiny morsel, so the machine eats up everything.
f)The mood of the poem is:
-desperate / helplessness then hopelessness.
-At the beginning when the machine comes and the woman is pleading with the driver, the mood is desperate and helpless as she can't do anything to salvage her belongings.
-the mood changes to hopelessness after the bulldozer flattens the woman's abode, and when the driver is reflecting on the kind of house he lives in.
g)One theme in the poem is
i)Poverty
the driver lives in a one roomed house with a family of five
ii)Hopelessness
-The woman is left hopeless after her house is demolished.
iii)Problems of housing in towns/ cities/problems of urbanization.The driver of the bulldozer lives in a small house with his large family
marto answered the question on March 9, 2020 at 11:44
- Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow.
SENIOR STAFF CLUB by A.I.LUVAI
Super - revolutionary mouths
Drop
In between puffs of cigarettes
Water - tight truths.
The common man i.e
Working man and woman
To be exact-
Must be helped by us
To wake to their oppressed status
We must raise the masses' consciousnesses!
But - gesturing left hand hands
In between
Drop vampire BAT butts on the floor
Swept daily by women
Faceless and nameless
In the help- self places
Nani, wee, and ai - sei
Clear the directionless mess
Splashed by the directional
Here,too,in beery bowls
They find floating yellowed butts
The tail -ends of bitter truths
(Adapted from Boundless voices edited by Arthur I Luvai
a)What is the poem about.?
b)Who do you think are the super - revolutionary mouths in line 1
c)What is the irony in the poem?
d)A part from irony identify and illustrate two more features of style used in the poem.
e)How does the poet feel about the peoplke he describes in line 1?
f)Why do you think the poet refers to the women sweepers as faceless and nameless?
g)Describe the tone of the poem.
h)Give the meaning of these words as used in the poem.
i)water - tight
ii)beery
iii) oppressed
Date posted: March 9, 2020. Answers (1)
- Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow.
ILLEGAL BREW by Dr Noah Ndosi
He was a man
of favoured health
whose speech was clarity
a successful player
in the mysterious game
of fluctuating life
The beginning
was only a few sips;
but each time he hit the fullness
of bulging calabashes
Time pulled on ;
His head entered a pot
adn remained
firmly stuck in;
his head flooding
with intoxicating
currents of alcohol,
he is now the last
to leave the beer markets.
Despite floods of warnings
from families and friends,
he firmly transplanted
his young life
on the lip burning
illegal brew
Of late, his bowels have become
visibly distended;
his breathe short
and shallow
he also drags thickly
swollen limbs.
Beyond despair,
he sees the leveller coming
to add him to a list
like some heedless neihgbour
who perished the same way.
a)What is the poem about?
b)Explain how the victim got hooked to alcoholism
c)What are the effects of illegal alcohol to the victim's body?
d)Identify an instances of contrast in the poem.
e)What is the writer's attitude towards the subject matter in the poem?
f)Identify the tone of the poem
g)Give the meaning of these words as used in the poem.
i)fluctuating
ii)bulging
iii)leveller
Date posted: March 9, 2020. Answers (1)
- Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow.
When I see the beauty inon my beloved's face by Okot P' Bitek
When I see the beauty on my
Beloved's face,
I throw away the food in my hand;
Oh sister of the young man, listen;
The beauty on my beloved's face
Her neck is long, when I see it
I cannot sleep one wink;
Oh, the daughter of my mother- in -law
Her neck is like the shaft of the spear.
When I touch the tattos on her back;
I die;
Oh, sister of the young man, listen;
The tattoos on my beloved's back.
When I see the gap on my beloveds teeth
Her teeth are white like dry season simsim;
Oh, daughter of my father in law, listen,
The gap on my beloved,s teeth.
The daughter of the bull confuses my head ,
I have to marry her;
True , sister of the young man, listen;
The suppleness of my beloved's waist.
i)Identify the speaker
b) Identify and illustrate three poetic devices used by the poet
c)Pick out 3 that the people fro where the poem is set use to define beauty in women.
d)What solution does the speaker have to resolve the crisis he is in?
e)What is the effect of repetition in the poem?
f)Give the meaning of these words as used in the poem.
i)shaft
ii)suppleness
Date posted: March 9, 2020. Answers (1)
- Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow.
SYMPTOMS OF LOVE
Love is a universal migraine
A bright stain on the vision
Blotting out reason.
Symptoms of true love
Are leanness, jealousy,
Laggard dawns;
Are omens and nightmares-
Listening for a knock.
Waiting for a sign:
For a touch of her fingers
In a darkened room,
For a searching look
Take courage,lover!
Could you endure such pain
At any hand but hers?
a)What is the poem about?
b)Identify and illustrate any two stylistic devises used by the poet.
c)Which three words used in the poem show that true love is painful.
d)What concrete evidence should a lover look for in true love?
e)Identify the solution the speaker gives to the lover?
f)Who is being addressed in this poem?Give evidence from the poem.
g)Give the meaning of these words as used in the poem.
i)migraine
ii)laggard
iii)endure
Date posted: March 9, 2020. Answers (1)
- Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow. AFTER A WAR The outcome? Conflicting rumours.....
As to what (Solved)
Read the pom below and answer the questions that follow.
AFTER A WAR
The outcome? Conflicting rumours
As to what faction murdered
The one man who, had survived
Might have ruled us without corruption
Not matters now:
We're busy collecting the dead
Counting them, hard though it is
To be sure what side they were on
Whta 's left of their bodies and faces
Tells of no need but for burial
And mutilations was practices
By right left and centre alike
As for the children and women
Who knows that they wanted
Apart from the usual things?
Food is scarce now, and men are scarce
Whole villages burnt to the ground
New cities in disrepair
The war is over, somebody must have won
Somebody will have won.When peace is declared
a)What is the poem about?
b)Outline four results of war
c)Describe the mood of the poem
d)How can we infer that corruption will continue to manifest itself in the society in the poem?
e)What points out that the killing were extremely inhuman?
f)What were the poets feelings towards war?
g)Give the meaning of these words as used in the poem
i)faction
ii)mutilations
iii)Scarce
Date posted: March 9, 2020. Answers (1)
- Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.
Ocol rejects the old type
He is in love with modern woman,
He is in love with a beautiful girl
Who speaks English
But only recently
We would sit close together, touching each other!
Only recently I would play
On my bow harp
Singing praises to my beloved
Only recently he promised
That he trusted me completely
I used to admire him speaking in English
Ocol is no longer in love with old type;
He is in love with a modern girl.
The name of the beutiful one
Is Clementine
Brother ,when you see Clementine!
The beautiful one aspires
To look like a white woman.
Her lips are red - hot
Like glowing charcoal,
She resembles the wild cat
That has dipped its mouth in blood,
Her mouth is like raw rays
It looks like an open ulcer,
Like the mouth of a fiend
Tina dusts powder on her face
And it looks so pale;
She resembles the wizard
Getting ready for the midnight dance.
She dusts her ash - dirt all over her face
And when little sweat
Begins to appear on her body
She looks like the guinea fowl!
The smell of carbolic soap
Makes me sick
And the smell of powder
Provokes the ghosts in my head;
It is then necessary to fetch a goat from my mother's brother.
The sacrifice over.
The ghost- dance drum must sound
The ghost be laid
And my peace restored.
I do not like dusting myself with powder
The thing is good on pink skin because it is already pale,
But when a black woman has used it
She looks as if she has dysentery;
Tina looks sickly
And she is slow moving
She is a piteous sight.
a)Classify the genre above
b)Identify the speaker
c)Identify and illustrate two stylistic devices used by the writer.
d)What is the speakers altitude towards the modern woman?
e)Pick out three things the speaker feels an African woman should not do.
f)What remedy does the speaker have for problems brought to her by the modern woman?
g)Describe two character traits of the speaker
h)Give the meaning of the following words as used in the text.
i)resemble
ii)piteous
Date posted: March 9, 2020. Answers (1)
- Read the following poem and then answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the following poem and then answer the questions that follow.
LIFE VARIETY
Why do we grumble because a tree is bent?
When in our streets, there are even men who are bent?
Why do we complain that the new moon is slanting?
Can anyone reach the sky to straighten it?
Can't we see that some cocks have combs on their heads?
but no plums in their tails?
And some have plumes in their tails, but claws on their toes?
And other have claws on their toes, but no weapon to crow?
He who has a head has no cap to wear,
And he who has a cap has no head to wear it on.
The Owa has everything but a horse's stable
Some scholars of Ifa cannot tell the way to Ofa
Others know the way to Ofa, but not alien of Ofa
Great eaters have no food to eat,
And great drinkers no wine to drink
Wealth has coat of many colors
i)State the intonation at the end of lines 3 and 8.
ii)Describe the oral performance devise you would use to deliver this poem.
iii)Explain two qualities of a good story teller.
Date posted: March 5, 2020. Answers (1)
- Read the following and answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the following and answer the questions that follow.
"Too many cooks spoil the broth"
i)Classify the above genre.
ii)Give another example from the same genre with a similar meaning
iii)Give another example from same genre that contrasts it.
iv)Cite an incident where the above genre can apply.
Date posted: March 5, 2020. Answers (1)
- Read the item below and answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the item below and answer the questions that follow.
LAZY MAN
When the cock crows
the lazy man smacks his lips and says;
So it is daylight again, is it?
And before he turns over heavily,
before he even yawns,
the farmer has reached the farm,
the water carriers have arrived at the river,
the spinners are spinning their cotton
the weaver works on his cloth,
and the fire blazes in the blacksmith's hut.
The lazy one knows where the soup is sweet.
He goes from house to house,
I f there is no sacrifice today,
his breastbone will stick out!
but when he sees the free yam,
he starts to unbutton his shirt, he moves close to the celebrant.
Yet his troubles are not few,
When his wives reach puberty,
rich men will help him marry them.
i)Classify the above oral poem
ii)Identify and explain any two stylistic devices used in the poem.
Date posted: March 5, 2020. Answers (1)
- Read the song below and answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the song below and answer the questions that follow.
Where is she eee
Where is the bride?
We want to pamper her
We want to pamper her x 2
We advise you, we advise you
When you get there, respect your husband
When he calls you respond to his call.So that your marriage can last.
Both of you may live in peace
Both of you may live in peace x 2
i)State the words which can be stressed in line two and explain why?
ii)What is lost when the above song is written down?
iii)If you were reading the song aloud in class, how would you ensure that those listening to you get the message?
Date posted: March 4, 2020. Answers (1)
- Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.
Sampan
Waves lap lap
Fish fins clap clap
Brown sails flap flap
Chop sticks tap tap
Up and down the long green river
Ohe! Ohe! Lanterns quiver
Willow branches brush the river
Ohe! Ohe! Lanterns quiver
Waves lap lap
Fish fins clap clap
Brown sails flap flap
Chop sticks tap tap
Questions:
1. Describe the rhyme scheme of the above poem.
2. Identify and illustrate any sound devices used in the poem.
3. Provide another word that is pronounced the same way as the ones provided below.
i) Key –
ii) One –
iii) Passed –
iv) Come –
v) Read
Date posted: October 15, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.
Questions:
1. Describe the rhyme scheme of the above poem.
2. Identify and illustrate any sound devices used in the poem.
3. Provide another word that is pronounced the same way as the ones provided below.
i) Key –
ii) One –
iii) Passed –
iv) Come –
v) Read
Date posted: October 14, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.
a) Who is the persona in the poem.
b) Identify the imagery used and show its effectiveness.
c) Explain the meaning of the following sentences:-
1) Seeing only a bun on some sky-high shelf.
2) Your stomach is a den of lions
Roaring day and night
d) What is the attitude of the persona towards the boy?
e) What is the meaning of the following words?
1) Chiseled
2) Glazed
3) Taut
4) Confetti
f) What is the mood of the poem?
Date posted: October 14, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.
There was an Indian, who had known no change,
Who strayed along a sunlit beach.
Gathering shell, He heard a sudden strange
Commingled noise; looked up; and gasped for speech.
For in the bay, where nothing was before,
Moved on the sea, by magic, huge canoes,
With bellying cloths on poles and not oar,
And fluttering coloured signs, and clambering crews.
And he, in his fear, this naked man alone,
His fallen hands forgetting all their shells,
His lips gone pale, knelt low behind a stone
And stared, and saw, and did not understand,
Columbus’s doom- burdened caravels.
Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land
Question
a) Describe the rhyme scheme in the above poem and state its function.
b) Identify words that end in the same sound in line 4.
c) Provide words that are identical in pronunciation to the following. (4 marks)
i) Pale
ii) Oar
iii) Crews
iv) Was
d) What would be the effect of mid-line pauses on the performance of the poem.
Date posted: October 9, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the poem below and answer the questions.
A freedom song(Solved)
Questions
a) Who is speaking in this poem? Give evidence.
b) In about 50 words what is the poem talking about?
c) If you were to read this poem to an audience, which words and lines would you emphasize?
d) How does Atieno change over the years?
e) From the poem identify.
i) A proper noun
ii) Three common noun
Date posted: October 9, 2019. Answers (1)
- (Solved)
Analyze the oral song below and answer the questions that follow.
WHEN I SEE THE BEAUTY ON MY BELOVED’S FACE
When I see the beauty on my beloved’s face,
I throw away the food in my hand;
Oh, sister of the young man, listen;
The beauty on my beloved’s face.
Her neck is long, when I see it cannot
Sleep one wink
Oh, the daughter of my mother-in-law,
Her neck is like the shaft of a spear.
When I touch the tattoos on her back,
I die;
Oh, sister of the young man, listen;
The tattoo on my beloved’s back.
When I see the gap in my beloved’s teeth,
Her teeth are white like dry season simsim;
Oh, daughter of my father-in-law, listen;
The gap in my beloved’s teeth.
The daughter of the bull confuses my head,
I have to marry her;
True, sister of the young man, listen;
The suppleness of my beloved’s waist.
i) How has rhythm been achieved in this oral song?
ii) Explain how you would perform this oral song.
iii) What tone will you adopt when singing this song?
Date posted: October 7, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the poem below and then answer questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the poem below and then answer questions that follow.
(a) Who is the speaker in this poem?
(b) Describe what the poem above is about.
(c) Identify three instances of similes in the poem.
(d) Give this poem a suitable title.
Date posted: September 30, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow.
i). Describe the rhyme scheme of this poem.
ii).Identify any two sound patterns used in the poem above.
iii). How would you perform the last line of the poem?
iv). Which words would you stress in the first line?
Date posted: September 24, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.
(Solved)
Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.
I wonder by the edge
Of this desolate lake
Where wind cries in the sledge
Until the axle break
That keeps the stars in their round
And hands hurt in the deep
The banners of east and west
And the girdle of light is unbound,
Your breast will not lie by the breast
Of your beloved in sleep
(i) Describe the rhyme scheme of the poem.
(ii) Identify and illustrate any two sound pattern used in the poem.
(iii) How would you say the last two lines of the poem?
(iv) Give homophones for the following words used in the poem (2mks)
Wonder –
Break-
Date posted: September 12, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the following poem and then answer the questions that follow. (Solved)
Read the following poem and then answer the questions that follow.
There, I've got you,
I've got you . . . Crack, crack,
what a louse. It bit me,
what a louse. . . It bit me,
what a louse!
(From: Oral literature in Africa, by Ruth Finnegan)
i) Explain how rhythm is achieved in this poem
ii) How would you perform the above poem to make it enjoyable?
iii) Identify the words that you would stress in line 3, and explain why.
Date posted: September 11, 2019. Answers (1)