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NOVEMBER EXAMINATION 2018

ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE 4/4

GRADE 9 %

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ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE

PAPER 4/4: LITERATURE
GRADE 9
NOVEMBER EXAMINATION

EXAMINER: M. Bester TIME: 1½ hours

MODERATOR: A. Nortje TOTAL: 10

INSTRUCTIONS

1. This paper consists TWO sections and FIVE questions.

1.1 Section A: Poetry
1.2 Section B: Short story
2. Read through the whole paper before you start.
3. Answer all the questions.
4. Number each question as indicated.
5. Write neatly and legibly.
6. Rule off after each question.
7. Start each section on a new page.
8. Only use a blue ballpoint pen.

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SECTION A: POETRY

QUESTION 1: Seen poetry

Read the poem and answer the questions.

Sonnet 18 William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, 5
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st, 10
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st;
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

1.1 Who is the poem ‘speaking’ to? (1)

1.2 To what does the speaker compare his love interest throughout the poem? (2)

1.3 What does the speaker mean when he refers to the ‘eye of heaven’? (1)

1.4 How does the speaker compare the ‘eye of heaven’ to the person the poem is
addressed to? (2)

1.5 In which line does the poem change in tone and direction? Explain. (3)

1.6 Explain the line ‘Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade’. (2)

1.7 How does the speaker use the poem to immortalise his beloved? (2)

1.8 Name and discuss TWO themes in the poem. (4)

1.9 What type of poem is this? (1)

1.10 Discuss the structure of the poem by referring to meter. (2)

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QUESTION 2: Seen poetry

Read the poem and answer the questions.

April Rain Song Langston Hughes

Let the rain kiss you

Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops
Let the rain sing you a lullaby
The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk
The rain makes running pools in the gutter 5
The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night
And I love the rain.

2.1 Choose an example of personification from the list. Write the question number and
the letter of the answer only.
A. I love the rain.
B. Let the rain kiss you.
C. Still pools on the sidewalk.
D. Silver liquid drops. (1)

2.2 Explain the effectiveness of the figure of speech in ‘silver liquid drops’ (line 2). (2)

2.3 Which figure of speech is used in the line ‘silver liquid drops’? Which two things are
being compared? (2)

2.4 Explain in your own words what the poet means by:
‘Let the rain sing you a lullaby’ (line 3) (2)

2.5 The message the poet wants to convey to the reader is _____.
A. to accept the rain
B. to enjoy the rain
C. to pray for rain
D. that people need rain (1)

2.6 Quote a phrase from the poem with the similar meaning to a ‘lullaby’. (2)
(10 x 2) = [20]

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QUESTION 3: Seen poetry

Read the poem and answer the questions.

The Wild Iris Louise Glück

At the end of my suffering,

there was a door.

Hear me out: that which you call death

I remember.

Overhead, noises, branches of the pine shifting. 5

Then nothing. The weak sun
flickered over the dry surface.

It is terrible to survive
as consciousness
buried in the dark earth. 10

Then it was over: that which you fear, being

a soul and unable
to speak, ending abruptly, the stiff earth
bending a little. And what I took to be
birds darting in low shrubs. 15

You who do not remember

passage from the other world
I tell you I could speak again: whatever
returns from oblivion returns
to find a voice: 20

from the centre of my life came

a great fountain, deep blue
shadows on azure seawater.

3.1 Name THREE instances of symbolism throughout the poem. (3)

3.2 Name and shortly discuss TWO themes in the poem. (4)

3.3 What is it called when a line continues into another without punctuation? Provide
two examples where the poet uses this to great effect. (3)
(10 x 2) = [20]

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QUESTION 4: Seen poetry

Read the poem and answer the questions.

Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Pete Seeger

Words and music by Pete Seeger
Performed by Pete Seeger and Tao Rodriguez-Seeger

Where have all the flowers gone?

Long time passing
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the flowers gone? 5
Girls have picked them every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the young girls gone?

Long time passing 10
Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the young girls gone?
Taken husbands every one
When will they ever learn? 15
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the young men gone?

Long time passing
Where have all the young men gone?
Long time ago 20
Where have all the young men gone?
Gone for soldiers every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the soldiers gone? 25

Long time passing
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to graveyards every one 30
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

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Where have all the graveyards gone?

Long time passing
Where have all the graveyards gone? 35
Long time ago
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Covered with flowers every one
When will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn? 40

©1961 (Renewed) Fall River Music Inc

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4.1 What is the singer-songwriter protesting in this song? What upsets him? (2)

4.2 Identify the values of the singer-songwriter. What does he believe in? What is
important to him? What does he value and want to preserve? Refer to the song to
support your answer. (4)

4.3 This song was written in 1961 when the so-called ‘Cold War’ was intensifying.
Discuss the time in which Seeger lived, and suggest why this song was written and
performed. (4)
(10 x 2) = [20]

TOTAL SECTION A: 80

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SECTION B: SHORT STORY

QUESTION 5
Read the extract and answer the questions.

‘Now the legs,’ Raymond said. Peter struggled and received a punch in the stomach.
That winded him and he lay still. Next, they tied his ankles together with more string. He
was now trussed up like a chicken and completely helpless.
Ernie picked up his gun, and then, with his other hand, he grabbed one of Peter’s arms.
Raymond grabbed the other arm and together they began to drag the boy over the grass
towards the railway lines.
Peter kept absolutely quiet. Whatever it was they were up to, talking to them wasn’t going
to help matters.
They dragged their victim down the embankment and on to the railway lines themselves.
Then one took the arms and the other the feet and they lifted him up and laid him down
again lengthwise right between two lines.
‘You’re mad!’ Peter said. ‘You can’t do this!’
‘’Oo says we can’t? This is just a little lesson we’re teachin’ you not to be cheeky.’
‘More string,’ Ernie said.
Raymond produced the ball of string and the two larger boys now proceeded to tie the
victim down in such a way that he couldn’t wriggle away from between the rails. They did
this by looping string around each of his arms and then threading the string.
The Swan

5.1 Why is Ernie extremely violent? (2)

5.2 How do they carry the birds they have shot? (1)

5.3 Explain in your own words: ‘He was now trussed up like a chicken and completely
helpless’. (2)

5.4 What game does Peter play while he waits for the train to come? (2)

5.5 Who is the owner of the bird sanctuary? (1)

5.6 They use Peter as a ‘retriever dog’. What does he have to ‘retrieve’? How did they
make him do this? (2)

5.7 Ernie says he is going to be ‘a magic man’. What is he going to do? How does he
fasten the wings to Peter? (3)

5.8 Does Ernie shoot at Peter while he is in the tree? How many times? Is he hit? (3)

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5.9 Do you think Peter Watson is a brave boy? Motivate your answer. (4)
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TOTAL SECTION B: 20

GRAND TOTAL: (100 ÷ 10) = 10

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