Clapham High School
English Home Language
Task 9: Literature
Grade 10
ASSESSOR: Ms F. Sekoala
EDUCATORS: Ms K. Madisha/Mr F. Ngcobo/ Mr C. Shoko
MODERATOR: Mrs N. Schutte (
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DATE: 6 August 2019
TIME: 60 minutes
TOTAL: 35
INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION
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This question paper consists of TWO sections:
SECTION A: Poetry (10)
SECTION B: Drama (25)
Number your answers according to the numbering system used in this question paper.
Number each question’s answer in the of the line.
Pay special attention to spelling and sentence structure.
Write your name and surname, class, teacher and date of test.
SECTION A: POETRY
PRESCRIBED POETRY
QUESTION 1: POETRY – ESSAY QUESTION
Read the poem below and then answer the question that follows.
ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH (1917) – Wilfred Owen
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What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Ony the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells,
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs –
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
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What candles may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers’ of good-byes.
The pallor of girls’ brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.
Write a literary essay and show how Wilfred Owen employs the the use of imagery in his
poem ‘Anthem for doomed youth’ to support his philosophy about war.
Your response should take the form of a well-constructed essay of 150–200 words
(½–¾ page). You must complete at least a mind map and a final draft.
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SECTION B: DRAMA
ROMEO AND JULIET – William Shakespeare
QUESTION 2: ROMEO AND JULIET – CONTEXTUAL QUESTION
Read the extracts below and then answer the questions that follow.
EXTRACT A
PRINCE
Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace,
Profaners of this neighbour-stainèd steel! –
Will they not hear? – What, ho! You men, you beasts!
That quench the fire of your pernicious rage
With purple fountains issuing from your veins,
On pain of torture, from those bloody hands
Throw your mistempered weapons to the ground,
And hear the sentence of your movèd prince.
Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word,
By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,
Have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets
And made Verona’s ancient citizens
Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments
To wield old partisans, in hands as old,
Cankered with peace, to part your cankered hate;
If ever you disturb our streets again,
Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.
For this time all the rest depart away:
You, Capulet, shall go along with me,
And, Montague, come you this afternoon,
To know our farther pleasure in this case,
To old Free-town, our common judgment-place.
Once more, on pain of death, all men depart.
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2.1
Place the prince’s speech in the context of the play.
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To whom are the Prince’s words directed?
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Refer to line 3: ‘ … What ho! You men, you beasts!’
Identify and explain the figure of speech.
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Refer to line 7: ‘Throw your mistempered weapons to the ground,’
Explain the ambiguity in the words, ‘mistempered weapons’.
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EXTRACT B
JULIET How now, who calls?
NURSE Your mother.
JULIET Madam, I am here, what is your will?
LADY CAPULET This is the matter. Nurse, give leave a while,
We must talk in secret. Nurse, come back again,
I have remembered me, thou s’ hear our counsel.
Thou knowest my daughter’s of a pretty age.
NURSE Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour.
LADY CAPULET She’s not fourteen.
NURSE
I’ll lay fourteen of my teeth –
And yet to my teen be it spoken, I have but four –
She’s not fourteen. How long is it now
To Lammas-tide?
LADY CAPULET
A fortnight and odd days.
NURSE Even or odd, of all days in the year,
Come Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen.
Susan and she – God rest all Christian souls! –
Were of an age. Well, Susan is with God,
She was too good for me. But as I said,
On Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen,
That shall she, marry, I remember it well.
‘Tis since the earthquake now aleven years,
And she was weaned – I never shall forget it –
Of all the days of the year, upon that day;
For I had then laid wormwood to my dug,
Sitting in the sun under the dove-house wall.
My lord and you were then at Mantua –
Nay I do bear a brain – …
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Why do you think Lady Capulet is summoning Juliet?
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Explain the significance of line 7.
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According to the Nurse, how old is Juliet?
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2.8
Refer to line 13: ‘To Lammas-tide?’
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What is Lammas-tide?
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Briefly discuss the Nurse’s role in Juliet’s life. Explain why she had to play the
role.
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EXTRACT C
ROMEO
Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace!
Thou talk’st of nothing.
MERCUTIO
True, I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,
Which is as thin of substance as the air,
And more inconstant than the wind, who woos
Even now the frozen bosom of the north,
And, being angered puffs away from thence,
Turning his side to the dew-dropping south.
BENVOLIO This wind you talk of blows us from ourselves:
Supper is done, and we shall come too late.
ROMEO I fear too early, for my mind misgives
Some consequence yet hanging in the stars
Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
With this night’s revels, and expire the term
Of a despisèd life closed in my breast,
By some vile forfeit of untimely death.
But He that hath the steerage of my course
Direct my sail! On, lusty gentlemen.
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2.10
How do the Montagues plan on getting into the Capulets’ feast?
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2.11
Why is Romeo anxious about attending the feast?
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2.12
What is Mercutio’s opinion of the value of dreams?
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2.13
What premonition does Romeo have? Explain how this gives insight into the
tragedy that is yet to come.
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