THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA NATIONAL EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL OF TANZANIA
CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION EXAMINATION
024 LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
(For Both School and Private Candidates)
Time: 3 Hours Year: 2020
Instructions
1. This paper consists of sections A, B and C with a total of ten (10) questions.
2. Answer all questions from sections A and B and three (3) questions from section C of which questions 7 and 8 are compulsory.
3. Section A carries fifteen (15) marks, section B forty (40) marks and section C carries forty five (45) marks.
4. Cellular phones and any unauthorized materials are not allowed in the examination room.
5. Write your Examination Number on every page of your answer booklet(s).
SECTION A (15 Marks)
Answer all questions in this section.
1. For each of the items (i) - (x), choose the correct answer from among the given alternatives and write its letter beside the item number in the answer booklet provided.
(i) Which of the following feature distinguishes oral literature from other forms of literature?
(ii) In what type of drama does the main character end up in death or danger?
(iii) As you compose a poem, you create an atmosphere of feelings and emotions. What is the name of this poetic device?
(iv) Which of the following terms is used to refer to the tools used for appreciating literary works?
(v) What does this poetic line stand for? “Ten bucks you say I owe you?”
(vi) Which of the following is a guideline for the directors and actors during dramatising?
(vii) If a person wrote a book and put some brief explanations on the back cover about the book and himself/herself, this book is called
(viii) Which figure of speech is useful when you want to reduce the impact of harsh words in writing a work of art?
(ix) Which of these best distinguish literature from other subjects like Chemistry?
(x) A word which is offensive and forbidden to be used is known as
2. Match the descriptions in List A with the corresponding type of figure of speech in List B by writing the letter of the correct response beside the item number in the answer booklet(s) provided.
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SECTION B (40 Marks)
Answer all questions in this section.
3. Differentiate the following literary terms:
(a) Narrative poem and Lyric poem
View Ans(b) Metaphor and Simile
View Ans(c) Irony and Satire
View Ans(d) Poetic devices and Poetic licence
View Ans(e) Flashback and Foreshadowing
View Ans4. Read the following poem and then answer the questions that follow:
Time of Martyrdom – David Diop
The white killed my father
My father was proud
The white raped my mother
My mother was beautiful
The white bent my brother under the sun of the roads
My brother was strong
The white turned toward me
His hands red with black blood
And said in his Master’s voice
“Boy” an easy chair, a towel, water!
Questions
(a) What is the poem about?
View Ans(b) What type of poem is this? Give a reason to your answer.
View Ans(c) Briefly explain two themes found in the poem.
View Ans(d) Briefly explain two poetic devices used in the poem.
View Ans(e) Briefly explain the relevance of the poem to the society.
View Ans5. In each of the expression (a) - (e) state the function which each one performs in literature.
(a) When literature makes people to enjoy their society.
View Ans(b) Literature can make people to respond positively about what is happening in the society.
View Ans(c) The time when evils happen in the society literature does not keep quite.
View Ans(d) When people are ignorant about something happening in their society such as a terrible disease like CORONA, then through literature they get to know it.
View Ans(e) When there are dangerous things in the society and literature always stop people from doing those things.
View Ans6. Write the word that describes each of the description in items (a) - (e).
(a) The written script of drama.
View Ans(b) Conversation of characters.
View Ans(c) The writer’s descriptions of sets, characters and actions.
View Ans(d) The written script is normally divided into one or more major divisions.
View Ans(e) Subdivisions that are concerned with single event and may happen in a single setting.
View AnsSECTION C (45 Marks)
Answer three (3) questions from this section. Question 7 and 8 are compulsory.
LIST OF READINGS
Plays
The Lion and the Jewel - Soyinka, W.
The Trials of Brother Jero - Soyinka, W.
The Dilemma of a Ghost - Aidoo, A.A.
The Government Inspector - Gogol, N.
Novels
A Walk in the Night and Other Stories - Guma, A.
Houseboy - Oyono, F.
The Old Man and the Medal - Oyono, F.
The Concubine - Amadi, E.
Poetry
Selected poem - Tanzania Institute of Education
Growing up with poetry - David Rubadiri
7. Choose two main characters from two novels and show how they reflect our everyday life situation. Write three points from each novel.
View Ans8. ‘Children as the future generation of a society encounter difficulties.’ Show how true this statement is by referring to two poems read under this programme. Give three points for each poem.
View Ans9. Referring to three plays ‘The Trials of Brother Jero’ by Wole Soyinka, “Dilemma of a Ghost’ by Christina Ama Aidoo and ‘The Lion and the Jewel’ by Wole Soyinka, write the causes of conflicts in African societies. Give two points from each play.
View Ans10. With reference to the play ‘The Lion and the Jewel’ by Wole Soyinka and ‘The Trials of Brother Jero’ by Wole Soyinka, from each play analyse three themes that are found in each play and state reasons for choosing those themes.
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