Discuss the defects of a summer’s day as highlighted by the poet in Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

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The fact was that, no sooner had the sickles began o play than, the atmosphere suddenly felt as if cress would grow in it without other nourishment. it rubbed people's cheeks like damp flannel when they walked abroad: There was a gusty, high warm wind: isolated raindrops atarred the window-panes at remote distancees; the sunlight

would flap out like a quickly opened fan, throw the pattern of the window

upon the floor of the room in a milky, colourless shine, and

withdraw as suddenly as it had passed.

The feeling induced is one of

• A. excitement
• B. indifference
• C. anger
• D. despondency

If you touch me, I shall smash your face with this bottle Based on J.C. De Graft's Sons and Daughters, the issue at stake is that

• A. Maanan is trying to compromise
• B. Lawyer B is trying to kiss Maanan
• C. James sees Awere as a bad influence
• D. Mrs Bonu is taunting Maanan for loving her husband

Section B: NON - AFRICAN DRAMA

OLIVER GOLDSMITH - SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER

Discuss the significance of the alehouse in the play.

'Senhor Jose got cold during the night. After having uttered those redundant useless words, here she is, he wasn't sure what else he should do. It was true that, after long and arduous labours, he had managed, at last, to find the unknown woman, or rather, the place where she lay, a good six feet beneath an earth that still sustained him'

Jose Saramago: All the Names

What happens to the unknown woman in the passage above?

• A. She falls asleep
• B. She is dead
• C. She is awake
• D. She runs away

He put himself in uniform, made one for

his five-year-old son, and marched with

the infant from dawn till noon every

He put himself in uniform, made one for his five-year-old son, and marched with the infant from dawn till noon every market day, on the main road singing 'Kayiwawa beturi... The persona in the excerpt above is portrayed as market day, on the main road singing

'Kayiwawa beturi...

• A. a soldier
• B. abnormal
• C. energetic
• D. a policeman

UNSEEN POETRY AND PROSE

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Bent-double, like old beggars under sacks,

Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we curse throughsludge

Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,

And towards our distant rest began to trudge,

Men marched asleep, many had lost their boots,

But limped on, blood-shed. All went lame, all blind;

Drunk with fatigue; even deaf to the hoots

Of gas-shells dropping softy behind.

The expression Drunk with fatigue illustrates

• A. metaphor
• B. synecdoche
• C. litotes
• D. irony

A recurring idea, image, or a group of images that unifies a work of literature is

• A. motif
• B. allusion
• C. legend
• D. anecdote

Read the extract below and answer the following questions

Speaker X: Thou runaway, thou coward,

art thou fled?

Speak! In some bush? Where dost thou hide thy head?

Speaker Y: Thou coward, art thou bragging to the stars,

Telling the bushes that thou look'st for wars,

And wilt not come? Come, recreant, come, thou child;

I'll whip thee with a rod. He is defiled

That draws a sword on thee.

(Act III, Scene Two, Lines 405 - 411)

Speaker Y speaks in the voice of

• A. Bottom
• B. Demetrius
• C. Oberon
• D. Lysander

This question is based on General Literary Principles

'Theatre-in-the-round'is employed to achieve a

• A. quick resolution of conflicts
• B. hilarious ending
• C. contest between the hero and the villan
• D. close rapport between players and spectators.