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   Answer all the questions

   Each question is followed by four options lettered A to D. Find the correct option for each question and shade in pencil on your answer sheet, the answer space which bears the same letter as the option you have chosen.An example is given below

"All the world's a stage" is an example of

A. metaphor.
B. paradox.
C. allusion.
D. personification.

The correct answer is metaphor, which is lettered A, and therefore answer space A would be shaded.

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Think carefully before you shade the answer space; erase completely any answer(s) you wish to change.

Do all rough work on this question paper.

Now answer all the following questions:


SECTION A
Answer all the questions in this section.

PART I
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE OF LITERATURE

1. Letters, journals and diaries are examples of
2. That girl is too young to be put in the family way illustrates
3. A character that is built around a single idea or quality is a ……. character.
4. Seven metrical feet in a line of a stanza is
5. A dead metaphor is

Read the extract below and answer Questions 6 and 10.

                     (In the Town Hall)
Jonsey: (By himself centre right, looking skulky)
            How does anyone keep faith with himself in such an ill made place?
            Bassy, Ba-a-ssy!

Bassy: Here. Anything the matter?

Jonsey: (Moves front stage centre right) Your mayoral hopeful.

6. Jonsey's opening speech illustrates
7. In the Town Hall is the
8. Bassy is a ………… in the play.
9. Jonsey's speech 'Your mayoral hopeful' is addressed to
10. The speeches of Jonsey and Bassy illustrate
11. Resolution in a literary work is also referred to as
12. The moon looked on the massacre in horror! illustrates
13. A dramatic performance with scenes played by body movements or gestures without words is known as
14. A short poem lamenting the death of someone is
15. The third stanza of the Shakespearean sonnet is

Read the extract below and answer Questions 16 and 17.
The boat nodded in timing with the gentle
Bobbing of the float on the unhurrying
Tide as the angler awaited the bite and
Pull of a salmon

16. The extract presents the image of a
17. The dominant literary device used in the extract is
18. A fable is also known as
19. Exaggerating one's personal features for comic effect is
20. At the last head count, the population of the school was three thousand is an example of

PART II
UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the passage and answer Questions 21 to 25.

Along marched the crowd, determined not to be distracted from its cause and the course it had charted. If anyone could intimidate the chief, it was Sasu, who led the crowd. The chief nurtured unruffled restraint. He knew Sasu, knew that Sasu would not waste the trust between them on renegades.

One way to divert a mob from its goal is to join in with it, lead it on, but finally, veer it from the course of its cause. Onward, towards the chief's palace marched the crowd, singing war songs.

The sun frowned as the palace guards, rattling like leaves in a storm, fear branded on their faces, came out to survey the threatening crowd and prepare for a siege. Just then, Sasu turned about, heading away from the palace - with the crowd, and the war songs.

21. The prevailing atmosphere is
22. "join in with it, lead it on, but, finally, veer it from" illustrates
23. The attitude of the writer towards Sasu is one of
24. "rattling like leaves in a storm, fear branded on their faces" illustrates
25. The last paragraph illustrates

Read the poem and answer Questions 26 to 30

Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn
Grew lean while he assailed the season;
He wept that he was ever born,
And he had reasons.

Miniver loved the days of old
When swords were bright and steeds prancing;
The vision of a warrior bold
Would set him dancing.

26. Child of scorn illustrates ……….
27. The metrical structure is predominantly ………….
28. Reading the poem, one notices that the poet is being ………….
29. In the last stanza, the persona is ………….
30. The two stanzas are built on ………….

SECTION B
Answer all the questions in this section.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE; A Midsummer Night 's Dream

Read the extract below and answer Questions 31 to 35

As waggish boys in a game themselves forswear;
So the boy Love is perjured everywhere;
For ere Demetrius looked on Hermia's eyne,
He hailed down oaths that he was only mine;
And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
So he dissolved, and showers of oaths did melt.

31. The speaker is
32. The speech shows that the speaker is
33. The speaker's mood stems from
34. The speaker has just said farewell to
35. The speaker resolves to tell

Read the extract below and answer Questions 36 to 40

Lysander riddles very prettily;
Now much beshrew my manners and my pride,
If Hermia meant to say Lysander lied.
But, gentle friend, for love and courtesy
Lie further off, in human modesty;
Such separation as may well be said
Becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid;
So far be distant, and good night, sweet friend:
Thy love ne'er alter, till thy sweet life end!

36. The speaker is
37. The speech is made in
38. The speaker and the addressee are
39. "Now much beshrew my manners and my pride" illustrates the use of
40. "Thy love ne'er alter, till thy sweet life end!" implies

Read the extract below and answer Questions 41 to 45

That fallen am I in dark uneven way,
...... Come, thou gentle day;
For if but once thou show me thy grey light,
I'll find …….., and revenge this spite.

41. The speaker is
42. The speaker is addressing
43. The speaker is in
44. "Come, thou gentle day" illustrates
45. After the speech, the speaker

Read the extract and answer Questions 46 to 50.

He hath rid his prologue like a rough colt: he knows not the stop. A good moral, my lord: it is not enough to speak, but to speak true.

46. The speaker is:
47. The character that speaks before the speaker is:
48. “It is not enough to speak, but to speak true” illustrates:
49. The character that speaks after the speaker is:
50. The character that delivers the prologue is:
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