GRADE 11 NOVEMBER 2017 ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE P2

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GRADE 11 NOVEMBER 2017 ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE P2

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This question paper consists of 23 pages.

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INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION

1. Please read this page carefully before you begin to answer questions.

2. Do not attempt to read the entire question paper. Consult the table of contents on the next page and mark the numbers of the questions set on texts you have studied this year. Thereafter, read these questions and choose the ones you wish to answer.

3. This question paper consists of THREE sections.

SECTION A: POETRY (30)

SECTION B: NOVEL

(25)

SECTION C: DRAMA (25)

4. Follow the instructions at the beginning of each section carefully.

5. Answer FIVE QUESTIONS in all: THREE in SECTION A, ONE in SECTION B and ONE in SECTION C. Use the checklist to assist you.

6. Number the answers exactly as the questions have been numbered in the question paper.

7. Start each section on a NEW page.

8. Write neatly and legibly.

9. Suggested time management: SECTION A: approximately 40 minutes SECTION B: approximately 55 minutes SECTION C: approximately 55 minutes

10. LENGTH OF ANSWERS: Essay questions on poetry should be answered in 200?250 words. Essay questions on the Novel and Drama sections should be answered in 350?400 words. The length of answers to contextual questions should be determined by the mark allocation. Candidates should aim for conciseness and relevance.

11. CHOICE OF ANSWERS FOR SECTIONS B (NOVEL) AND C (DRAMA): Answer ONLY questions on the novel and the drama you have studied. Answer ONE ESSAY QUESTION and ONE CONTEXTUAL QUESTION. If you answer the essay question in SECTION B, you must answer the contextual question in SECTION C. If you answer the contextual question in SECTION B, you must answer the essay question in SECTION C.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

SECTION A: POETRY

PRESCRIBED POETRY

ANSWER ANY TWO QUESTIONS.

QUESTION 1 Mid-term break

Essay question

QUESTION 2 We wear the mask

Contextual question

QUESTION 3 Funeral blues

Contextual question

QUESTION 4 Housing targets

Contextual question

AND

UNSEEN POETRY

COMPULSORY QUESTION

QUESTION 5 ma

Contextual question

10 marks 10 marks 10 marks 10 marks

Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8

10 marks Page 10

NOTE: In sections B and C, answer ONE ESSAY QUESTION and ONE CONTEXTUAL question. If you answer an essay question from SECTION B, you must answer a contextual question from SECTION C. If you answer a contextual question from SECTION B, you must answer an essay question from SECTION C.

SECTION B: NOVEL

ANSWER ONLY ON THE NOVEL YOU HAVE STUDIED.

ANSWER ANY ONE OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS.

QUESTION 6 Things fall apart

Essay question

OR

QUESTION 7 Things fall apart

Contextual question

OR

QUESTION 8 Tsotsi

Essay question

OR

QUESTION 9 Tsotsi

Contextual question

25 marks 25 marks 25 marks 25 marks

Page 11 Page 12 Page 14 Page 15

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SECTION C: DRAMA

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ANSWER ONLY ON THE DRAMA YOU HAVE STUDIED.

ANSWER ANY ONE OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS.

QUESTION 10 Macbeth

Essay question

25 marks

OR

QUESTION 11 Macbeth

Contextual question

25 marks

OR

QUESTION 12 The Merchant of Venice

Essay question

25 marks

OR

QUESTION 13 The Merchant of Venice

Contextual question

25 marks

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CHECKLIST

Use this checklist to ensure that you have answered the correct number of questions.

SECTION

A: POETRY (Prescribed Poetry)

A: POETRY (Unseen Poem)

B: NOVEL (Essay or Contextual)

C: DRAMA (Essay or Contextual)

QUESTION NUMBERS

1?4

5

6?9

10?13

NO. OF QUESTIONS TO ANSWER

2

TICK

1

1

1

NOTE: In SECTIONS B and C, answer ONE ESSAY and ONE CONTEXTUAL question.

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SECTION A: POETRY

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PRESCRIBED POETRY: Answer ANY TWO of the following questions.

QUESTION 1: PRESCRIBED POETRY ? ESSAY QUESTION

MID-TERM BREAK ? Seamus Heany

I sat all morning in the college sick bay Counting bells knelling classes to a close. At two o'clock our neighbours drove me home.

In the porch I met my father crying ?

He had always taken funerals in his stride ?

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And Big Jim Evans saying it was a hard blow.

The baby cooed and laughed and rocked the pram When I came in, and I was embarrassed By old men standing up to shake my hand

And tell me they were "sorry for my trouble";

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Whispers informed strangers I was the eldest,

Away at school, as my mother held my hand

In hers and coughed out angry tearless sighs.

At ten o'clock the ambulance arrived

With the corpse, stanched and bandaged by the nurses.

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Next morning I went up into the room. Snowdrops And candles soothed the bedside; I saw him For the first time in six weeks. Paler now,

Wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple,

He lay in the four foot box as in his cot.

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No gaudy scars, the bumper knocked him clear.

A four foot box, a foot for every year.

In a carefully planned essay, critically discuss how the poet uses the title and imagery to convey the message of the poem. Your essay must be 200?250 words (about ONE page) in length.

OR

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QUESTION 2: PRESCRIBED POETRY ? CONTEXTUAL QUESTION

WE WEAR THE MASK ? Paul Laurence Dunbar

We wear the mask that grins and lies,

It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes ?

This debt we pay to human guile;

With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,

And mouth with myriad subtleties.

5

Why should the world be over-wise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us, while

We wear the mask.

We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries

10

To thee from tortured souls arise.

We sing, but oh the clay is vile

Beneath our feet, and long the mile;

But let the world dream otherwise,

We wear the mask!

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2.1 Explain how the word `guile' (line 3) supports the title.

(2)

2.2 Comment on the speaker's attitude as it is revealed in stanza 2.

(3)

2.3 Discuss the poet's use of sound devices.

(2)

2.4 Explain how the diction in lines 10?11 creates the tone in the last stanza.

(3)

[10]

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QUESTION 3: PRESCRIBED POETRY ? CONTEXTUAL QUESTION

FUNERAL BLUES ? W.H. Auden

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead

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Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,

Put cr?pe bows round the white necks of the public doves,

Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,

My working week and my Sunday rest,

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My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;

I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;

Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;

Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;

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For nothing now can ever come to any good.

3.1 Explain the title.

(2)

3.2 What does the metaphor in line 9 mean?

(2)

3.3 What is the effect of the use of the possessive adjectives and the pronouns

in the third stanza?

(3)

3.4 How is the mood created by the instructions in the last stanza?

(3)

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QUESTION 4: PRESCRIBED POETRY ? CONTEXTUAL QUESTION

HOUSING TARGETS ? Kelwyn Sole

Somewhere in our past we believed in the future

that a better world

would discover foundation

under our feet, and we

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would be forever singing,

in its kitchen.

Bricks pile up in a field.

Whether they will be enough

no one knows. How

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they fit together

is anyone's guess.

Men with darkening skins

scribbled on by weather

wait for their instructions.

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From time to time

limousines miraculously appear:

there is always a somebody

in a suit willing to smile

and shake their hands

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who lays the first stone.

Then the camera lights

and racing engines

turn around, shrink back

from where they came.

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Those left behind stare at their own hands afterwards, puzzled

at precisely what

has been transacted, why

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they are still being offered

bonds

squint

between gnarled fingers

pace out the hopeful distances:

35

? there will be a flower bowl

? my bed is going here.

As for now the doorknobs have no doors.

Their windows peer out

40

At no sky.

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