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nAm I BIA u n IVE RS ITV
OF SCIEnCE Ano TECHnOLOGY
FACULTY OF COMMERCE, HUMAN SCIENCESAND EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGES
QUALIFICATION: BACHELOROF ENGLISHAND LINGUISTICS
QUALIFICATION CODE: 07BENL
LEVEL: 5
COURSE CODE: ILT521S
COURSE NAME: INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE1B
SESSION:
NOV 2024
PAPER:
THEORY
DURATION:
3 HOURS
MARKS:
100
EXAMINER{S)
MODERATOR:
FIRST OPPORTUNITY EXAMINATION
Dr E. *Gawas
Mr F. Salomo
Ms A. Nghikembua
QUESTION PAPER
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Answer three {3) questions.
2. Write clearly and neatly.
3. Number the answers clearly.
4. Indicate whether you are a FM, PM or DI student on the cover of your
answer booklet.
PERMISSIBLE MATERIALS
1. Examination paper
2. Examination script
THIS MEMORANDUM CONSISTS OF_ 4_ PAGES {Including this front page)
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SECTION A
Answer ALL the questions in this section.
Question 1
[30)
Read the following poem and answer the question that follows:
City Johannesburg by Mongane Wally Serote
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This way I salute you:
My hand pulses to my back trouser pocket
Or into my inner jacket pocket
For my pass, my life,
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Jo'burg City.
My hand like a starved snake rears my pockets
For my thin, ever lean wallet,
While my stomach groans a friendly smile to hunger,
Jo'burg City.
10 My stomach also devours coppers and papers
Don't you know?
Jo'burg City, I salute you;
When I run out, or roar in a bus to you,
I leave behind me, my love,
15 My comic houses and people, my dongas and my ever whirling dust,
My death
That's so related to me as a wink to the eye.
Jo'burg City
I travel on your black and white roboted roads
20 Through your thick iron breath that you inhale
At six in the morning and exhale from five noon.
Jo'burg City
That is the time that I come to you,
When your neon flowers flaunt from your electrical wind,
25 That is the time when I leave you,
When your neon flowers flaunt their way through the falling darkness
On your cement trees.
And as I go back, to my love,
My dongas, my dust, my people, my death,
30 Where death lurks in the dark like a blade in the flesh,
I can feel your roots, anchoring your might, my feebleness
In my flesh, in my mind, in my blood,
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And everything about you says it, That, that is all you need of me.
Jo'burg City, Johannesburg,
35 Listen when I tell you,
There is no fun, nothing, in it.
When you leave the women and men with such frozen expressions,
Expressions that have tears like furrows of soil erosion,
Jo'burg City, you are dry like death,
40 Jo'burg City, Johannesburg, Jo'burg City
1. Quote examples of the following literary devices from the poem and explain your answer.
1.1 Personification
(2)
1.2 Setting
(2)
1.3 Imagery
(2)
1.4 Symbolism
(2)
1.5 Simile
(2)
1.6 Metaphor
(2)
1.7 Repetition
(2)
1.8 Alliteration
(2)
1.9 Parallelism
(2)
1.10 Rhetorical question
(2)
Question 2
Write two well-structured
identify in the poem.
paragraphs of 4-5 sentences in which you discuss two themes you
[2x5 =10]
Question 3
[35]
Write a well-structured essay of 350-400 words in which you discuss Makhaya's internal conflicts
in Bessie Head's When Rain Clouds Gather. Motivate your discussion with references to the
story.
[CONTENT- 20: LANGUAGE -12: STYLE- 3]
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SECTION B
Answer ONE question from this section.
Question 1
[35]
Write a well-structured essay of 350-400 words in which you discuss the physical near-death
experiences of the narrator in Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum. Motivate your
discussion with references to the story.
[CONTENT- 20: LANGUAGE - 12: STYLE- 3]
Question 2
[35]
Write a well-structured essay of 350-400 words with reference to Shooting an Elephant in which
you discuss the attitude of the people in Burmese people towards the Europeans. Motivate your
discussion with references to the story.
[CONTENT- 20: LANGUAGE - 12: STYLE- 3]
END OF QUESTION PAPER
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