GRADE 11 NOVEMBER 2018 ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE P2

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GRADE 11

NOVEMBER 2018

ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE P2

MARKS: 80

TIME:

2? hours

This question paper consists of 22 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 NO. 1. The child who was shot dead

by soldiers in Nyanga

QUESTION Essay question

MARKS PAGE NO.

10

5

2. African poem

Contextual question

10

6

3. The author to her book

Contextual question

10

7

4. Sonnet 130

Contextual question

10

8

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UNSEEN POETRY: COMPULSORY QUESTION

5. Where the rainbow ends

Contextual question

10

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.

6. Things fall apart

Essay question

25

10

OR

7. Things fall apart

Contextual question

25

10

OR

8. Tsotsi

Essay question

25

12

OR

9. Tsotsi

Contextual question

25

13

SECTION C: DRAMA

ANSWER ONLY ON THE DRAMA YOU HAVE STUDIED.

ANSWER ANY ONE OF THE FOLLOWING FOUR QUESTIONS.

10. Macbeth

Essay question

25

16

OR

11. Macbeth

Contextual question

25

16

OR

12. The Merchant of Venice

Essay question

25

19

OR

13. The Merchant of Venice

Contextual question

25

20

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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?11

NO. OF QUESTIONS TO ANSWER 2

1

1

1

TICK

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

THE CHILD WHO WAS SHOT DEAD BY SOLDIERS IN NYANGA ? Ingrid Jonker

The child is not dead

the child lifts his fists against his mother

who screams Afrika shouts the scent

of freedom and the veld

in the locations of the cordoned heart

5

The child lifts his fists against his father

in the march of the generations

who are shouting Afrika shout the scent

of righteousness and blood

in the streets of his warrior pride

10

The child is not dead

not at Langa not at Nyanga

not at Orlando not at Sharpeville

not at the police station in Philippi

where he lies with a bullet through his brain

15

The child is the shadow of the soldiers

on guard with rifles saracens and batons

the child is present at all gatherings and law-giving

the child peers through house windows and into the hearts of mothers

the child who wanted just to play in the sun at Nyanga is everywhere

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the child grown to a man treks all over Africa

the child grown to a giant travels through the whole world

Without a pass

In a carefully planned essay, critically discuss how the poet uses the title,

repetition and climax to highlight events in South African history. Your essay

must be 250?300 words (about ONE page) in length.

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QUESTION 2: PRESCRIBED POETRY ? CONTEXTUAL QUESTION

AFRICAN POEM ? Augustinho Neto (translated by Gerald Moore)

There on the horizon

the fire

and the dark silhouettes of the imbondeiro trees

with their arms raised

in the air the green smell of burnt palm trees

5

On the road the line of Bailundo porters groaning under their loads of crueira

in the room

the sweet sweet-eyed mulatress

10

retouching her face with rouge and rice-powder

the woman under her many clothes moving her hips

on the bed

the sleepless man thinking

of buying knives and forks to eat with at a table

15

On the sky the reflections

of the fire

and the silhouette of the blacks at the drums

with their arms raised

in the air the warm tune of marimbas

20

On the road the porters in the room the mulatress on the bed the sleepless man

The burning coals consuming

consuming with fire

25

the warm country of the horizons.

2.1 What effect does the poet achieve with the inclusion of many foreign words? (2)

2.2 Comment on the repetition in line 10.

(2)

2.3 What impression is created about African life in stanza 4? Quote in support

of your answer.

(3)

2.4 The last stanza differs in imagery and tone from the rest of the poem.

Explain.

(3)

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QUESTION 3: PRESCRIBED POETRY ? CONTEXTUAL QUESTION

THE AUTHOR TO HER BOOK ? Anne Bradstreet

Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,

Who after birth didst by my side remain,

Till snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true,

Who thee abroad, exposed to public view,

Made thee in rags, halting to th' press to trudge,

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Where errors were not lessened (all may judge).

At thy return my blushing was not small,

My rambling brat (in print) should mother call,

I cast thee by as one unfit for light,

Thy visage was so irksome in my sight,

10

Yet being mine own, at length affection would

Thy blemishes amend, if so I could:

I washed thy face, but more defects I saw,

And rubbing off a spot still made a flaw.

I stretched thy joints to make thee even feet,

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Yet still thou run'st more hobbling than is meet;

In better dress to trim thee was my mind,

But nought save homespun cloth i' th' house I find.

In this array 'mongst vulgars may'st thou roam.

In critic's hands beware thou dost not come,

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And take thy way where yet thou art not known;

If for thy father asked, say thou hadst none;

And for thy mother, she alas is poor,

Which caused her thus to send thee out of door.

3.1 Refer to lines 1?4. Comment on the speaker's feelings about her offspring,

and quote in support of your answer.

(2)

3.2 `I stretched thy joints to make thee even feet' (line 15).

What does this line reveal about the speaker's efforts to change her work?

Mention TWO things.

(3)

3.3 If the speaker criticises her work as `homespun' (line 18), and associated

with `vulgars' (line 19), what do you think were her aspirations?

(3)

3.4 Explain how the use of pronouns helps create the mood of the poem.

(2)

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QUESTION 4: PRESCRIBED POETRY ? CONTEXTUAL QUESTION

SONNET 130 ? William Shakespeare

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;

Coral is far more red than her lips' red;

If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;

If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

I have seen roses damasked, red and white,

5

But no such roses see I in her cheeks;

And in some perfumes is there more delight

Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.

I love to hear her speak, yet well I know

That music hath a far more pleasing sound;

10

I grant I never saw a goddess go;

My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.

And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare

As any she belied with false compare.

4.1 From the descriptions in lines 5?6, describe what a woman's complexion

should look like.

(2)

4.2 Are Shakespeare's observations in the quatrains cynical or not? Explain

your answer.

(2)

4.3 Refer to line 12. Comment on the effect pace has on the meaning of the

line.

(3)

4.4 Analyse how the sonnet form supports the speaker's attitude to his

mistress.

(3)

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