GRADE 12 SEPTEMBER 2017 ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE P2
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GRADE 12
SEPTEMBER 2017
ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE P2
MARKS: 80
TIME:
2? hours
*ENGHL2* This question paper consists of 26 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 250?300 words. Essay questions on the Novel and Drama sections should be answered in 400?450 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 An African Thunderstorm QUESTION 2 Remember QUESTION 3 A Hard Frost QUESTION 4 An African Elegy AND UNSEEN POETRY COMPULSORY QUESTION. QUESTION 5 I Threw It All Away
Essay question 10 marks
Contextual question Contextual question Contextual question
10 marks 10 marks 10 marks
Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8
Contextual question
10 marks Page 9
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 FOUR QUESTIONS.
QUESTION 6 The Picture of Dorian Gray
Essay question
25 marks
OR
QUESTION 7 The Picture of Dorian Gray
Contextual question
25 marks
OR
QUESTION 8 Life of Pi
Essay question
25 marks
OR
QUESTION 9 Life of Pi
Contextual question
25 marks
Page 10 Page 11 Page 13 Page 14
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SECTION C: DRAMA
ANSWER ONLY ON THE DRAMA YOU HAVE STUDIED.
ANSWER ANY ONE OF THE FOLLOWING SIX QUESTIONS.
QUESTION 10 Othello
Essay question
25 marks
OR
QUESTION 11 Othello
Contextual question
25 marks
OR
QUESTION 12 The Crucible
Essay question
25 marks
OR
QUESTION 13 The Crucible
Contextual question
25 marks
OR
QUESTION 14 Hamlet
Essay question
25 marks
OR
QUESTION 15 Hamlet
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?15
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
PRESCRIBED POETRY: Answer ANY TWO of the following questions.
QUESTION 1: PRESCRIBED POETRY ? ESSAY QUESTION
AN AFRICAN THUNDERSTORM ? David Rubadiri
From the west
Clouds come hurrying with the wind
Turning
Sharply
Here and there
5
Like a plague of locusts
Whirling
Tossing up things on its tail
Like a madman chasing nothing.
Pregnant clouds
10
Ride stately on its back
Gathering to perch on hills
Like dark sinister wings;
The Wind whistles by
And trees bend to let it pass.
15
In the village
Screams of delighted children
Toss and turn
In the din of whirling wind,
Women ?
20
Babies clinging on their backs ?
Dart about
In and out
Madly
The Wind whistles by
25
Whilst trees bend to let it pass.
Clothes wave like tattered flags
Flying off
To expose dangling breasts
As jaggered blinding flashes
30
Rumble, tremble, and crack
Amidst the smell of fired smoke
and the pelting march of the storm.
In a carefully planned essay, critically discuss how the poet uses structure, imagery
and sound devices to indicate the fierceness of the oncoming storm. Your essay
must be 250?300 words (about ONE page) in length.
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QUESTION 2: PRESCRIBED POETRY ? CONTEXTUAL QUESTION
REMEMBER ? Christina Rossetti ?
Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day
5
You tell me of our future that you planned:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
10
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far that you should forget and smile
Than you should remember and be sad.
2.1 Comment on the repetition of the title in the poem.
(2)
2.2 How does the use of pronouns reveal the nature of the speaker's
relationship?
(2)
2.3 Discuss critically the poet's use of format to indicate different tones.
(3)
2.4 To what extent do you think that this is a love poem if references are made to
`silent land' (line 2) and `darkness and corruption' (line 11)? Refer to the
whole poem in support of your answer.
(3)
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QUESTION 3: PRESCRIBED POETRY ? CONTEXTUAL QUESTION
A HARD FROST ? Cecil Day Lewis ?
A frost came in the night and stole my world
And left this changeling for it ? a precocious
Image of spring, too brilliant to be true:
White lilac on the windowpane, each grass-blade
Furred like a catkin, maydrift loading the hedge.
5
The elms behind the house are elms no longer
But blossomers in crystal, stems of the mist
That hangs yet in the valley below, amorphous
As the blind tissue whence creation formed.
The sun looks out, and the fields blaze with diamonds. 10
Mockery spring, to lend this bridal gear
For a few hours to a raw country maid,
Then leave her all disconsolate with old fairings
Of aconite and snowdrop! No, not here
Amid this flounce and filigree of death
15
Is the real transformation scene in progress
But deep below where frost
Worrying the stiff clods unclenches their
Grip on the seed and lets our future breathe.
3.1 Explain the metaphor in line 1.
(2)
3.2 Describe how the unusual word `blossomers' in line 7 helps create an unusual
image in the same line.
(2)
3.3 The speaker suggests that the appearance of the frost is fleeting and
misleading. How does he convey this in lines 10?13?
(3)
3.4 Comment on the poet's use of diction in the last four lines to create the final
tone.
(3)
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QUESTION 4: PRESCRIBED POETRY ? CONTEXTUAL QUESTION
AN AFRICAN ELEGY ? Ben Okri ?
We are the miracles that God made
To taste the bitter fruit of Time.
We are precious.
And one day our suffering
Will turn into the wonders of the earth.
5
There are things that burn me now Which turn golden when I am happy. Do you see the mystery of our pain? That we bear poverty And are able to sing and dream sweet things 10
And that we never curse the air when it is
warm
Or the fruit when it tastes so good
Or the lights that bounce gently on the
waters?
15
We bless things even in our pain.
We bless them in silence.
That is why our music is so sweet.
It makes the air remember.
There are secret miracles at work
20
That only Time will bring forth.
I too have heard the dead singing.
And they tell me that
This life is good
They tell me to live it gently
25
With fire, and always with hope.
There is wonder here
And there is surprise
In everything the unseen moves.
The ocean is full of songs.
30
The sky is not an enemy.
Destiny is our friend.
4.1 Refer to lines 6?7. Comment on the use of `burn' and `golden' to indicate
a change in feelings.
(2)
4.2 Refer to lines 11?15. Describe, in your own words, what gives Africans
the ability to `bless things'.
(2)
4.3 Discuss critically the poet's ironic choice of `elegy' in the title.
(3)
4.4 How does the speaker suggest Africans manage to deal with hardship?
Refer to the last two stanzas in support of your answer.
(3)
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