#FocusonExam: Literature in English GCE ‘A’ Level – 16th May 2020

QUESTION INTERPRETATION A LEVEL.

  • ESSAY QUESTIONS
  1. Chaucer’s presentation of his characters in The General Prologue and The Franklin’s Prologue and Tale is quite didactic and entertaining. Discuss.
  2. Discuss the theme of nobility in The General Prologue and the Franklin’s Prologue and Tale.
  3. Across the Mongolo is a mirror of the contemporary Cameroonian society. Discuss.
  4. Discuss the use of contrast in John Nkemgong’s Across the Mongolo.
  5. Ngwe is an admirable character. To what extent is this true?
  6. Discuss Charles Dickens’ Hard Times as a satirical novel.
  7. What aspects of African life are portrayed in Ola Rotimi’s Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again?

 

  • EXTRACT QUESTION

Read the extract below and answer the questions that follow.

QUEEN

Come hither, my dear Hamlet, sit by me.

HAMLET

No, good mother; here’s a metal more attractive.

POLONIUS

(To the king) O,ho. Do you mark that ?

HAMLET

Lady, shall I lie in your lap?

(lying down at Orphelia’s feet)

ORPHELIA

No, my lord.

HAMLET

Do you think I meant country matters?

ORPHELIA

I think nothing my lord.

HAMLET

O God, your only jig-maker. What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within two hours.

ORPHELIA

Nay, tis twice two months, my lord.

  1. What has prompted Hamlet to speak thus? (2marks)
  2. Pick out two figures of speech from this extract and comment on its effectiveness.(3marks)
  3. Bring out two aspects of Hamlet’s character from this extract. (2marks)
  4. Write down the infinitive of the following verbs:

–meant

-died (1mark)

  1. Give a brief account of the rest of the scene. (2marks)

 

 

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