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

The correct answer is metaphor, which is lettered B, and therefore answer space B 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. A poem that is shaped in the image of the object it talks about is
2. The choir is on wheels to a convention illustrates
3. One of the following helps best to create and sustain interest in a literary work.
4. The dominant device used in "Macbeth doth murder sleep; the innocent sleep" is
5. A narrative that extols the deeds of a heroic figure is a
6. She is a woman of great virtue
She is a woman of great vice illustrates
7. The overwhelming confidence and pride that lead to the fall of the protagonist is
8. Those you have loved and respected mock you to your face illustrates
9. The major divisions in a play are

Read the lines below and answer Questions 10 and 11.

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I have drunk

10. The metrical pattern is
11. The mood of the poet is that of
12. A narrative composed in the form of a letter is
13. The device used in "she gave him lots of cash and tender attention" is
14. The Shakespearean sonnet differs from the Petrarchan sonnet by ending with a

Read the lines below and answer Question 15.

The closing of the day
Is the beginning of the day

15. The lines
16. One of the important means available to a writer of a literary work is

Read the line below and answer Questions 17 and 18.

The curl of my lips, the swing of my waist, the ride of my breast, the stride of my steps, the flash of my teeth and the palm of my hand

17. The line is an example of
18. The image created in the line appeals to the sense of
19. Characters in a play that the author uses as a vehicle for commentary is
20. The ....... comes after the loose ends of the plot have been tied up.

PART II
UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

Read the passage and answer Questions 21 to 25.

The message was unambiguous: her John was on his way back. For how long had he been gone? Jenny wondered. She wrung her hands in silent expectation. She stood, turned about, and sat, motionless. She was listening to the silence of the room and looking into the gloom of the unlit room.

She seemed to pull herself together as she rose to her full height, switched on the light and turned on the TV, to no station in particular, selecting no programme at all. She sat in front of the TV, not watching. Her heart was pounding. Slowly, she hoisted herself from the arm chair and moved towards the kitchen like one sleepwalking.

She must get some food ready for the sojourner. Her rapid heartbeat did not show in her slow motion actions. Her cooking done, Jenny was carrying the dish on a tray to the dining table when the doorbell rang Jenny dropped the tray.

21. The passage is about
22. The figure of speech used in "She was listening to the silence of the room" is
23. The technique of narration is
24. In "... and moved towards the kitchen, like one sleepwalking," the simile portrays one who is
25. The mood is one of

Read the poem and answer Questions 26 to 30

My heart was in fearful flight
Pursued by Cupid, arrow poised
Waiting for my flight's end
When I'd turn about
Or I'd fall supine
My fleeing heart to pierce
Enslave or enthrall and ravish hopeless
So I'm pining and pining away
For you high up there have perched
Out of reach of my now yearning
Which was why my heart'd been fleeing
From Cupid's poised arrow

26. The poem is about ………… love.
27. The lines that provide the evidence for question 26 are
28. The poem is a
29. The dominant image is one of
30. In the poem, Cupid is

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.

Where I have come, great clerks have purposed
To greet me with premeditated welcomes;
Where I have seen them shiver and look pale,
Make periods in the midst of sentences,
Throttle their practised accent in their fears,
And in conclusion, dumbly have broken off,
Not paying me a welcome...

31. The speaker is
32. The speaker is addressing
33. The speech is in reaction to
34. The speaker's experience is that
35. At the end of the speech,

Read the extract below and answer Questions 36 to 40

So should the murdered look; and so should I,
Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty:
Yet you, the murderer, look as bright, as clear
As yonder Venus in her glimmering sphere.

36. The speaker and the addressee are
37. Earlier, the addressee has accused the speaker of
38. In turn, the speaker accuses the addressee of
39. The underlined lines portray the addressee as a
40. The setting of the extract is

Read the extract below and answer Questions 41 to 45

The wildest hath not such a heart as you.
Run when you will, the story shall be change
Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase;
The dove pursues the griffin, the mild hind
Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed,
When cowardice pursues, and valour flies.

41. The speaker is
42. The addressee is
43. The wildest refers to
44. The speech is intended to ........... the addressee.
45. Another character present at the scene is

Read the extract and answer Questions 46 to 50.

And in the wood, where often you and I
Upon faint primrose -beds were wont to lie,
Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet,
There, my Lysander and myself shall meet,
And thence from Athens turn away our eyes
To seek new friends and stranger companies.
Farewell, sweet playfellow; ...

46. “You and I” in the first line refer to:
47. The couple are going to the wood because:
48. The underlined word “faint” means being:
49. “Farewell, sweet playfellow” refers to:
50. Soon after, sweet playfellow decides to:
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