1 TOM NEWBY SCHOOL SUBJECT: English Paper 2: Comprehension, Language and Literature. EXAMINER: Mrs M Taylor DATE: 6 June 2014 MARKS: 100 SESSION: TIME: 2 Hours GRADE: 7 MODERATOR: Mrs A Singh This English test has been compiled using notes and information contained in the Tom Newby School English book. The marking memorandum has been compiled accordingly. While alternative responses will be given due acknowledgement, the official memorandum will be considered a priority document to ensure uniformity of marking. Name & Surname: Grade: Instructions Number all of your answers according to the questions on your question paper. Dictionaries are NOT allowed, but spelling will count in all the language sections and where stated, throughout the remainder of the paper. Please rule off after each section and remember to draw a margin on the right-hand side of the paper. Read all of your questions carefully and write your answers neat and legibly. If you do not, it could cost you a mark! Check your work thoroughly. Enjoy the paper!
2 Question 1: Comprehension Read the text A and answer the questions that follow in full sentences. Spelling counts, so be careful. Text A Tools of Persuasion Persuasion is the art of convincing someone to agree with your point of view. According to the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, there are three basic tools of persuasion: ethos, pathos, and logos. Ethos is a speaker s way of convincing the audience that she is a credible source. An audience will consider a speaker credible if she seems trustworthy, reliable, and sincere. This can be done in many ways. For example, a speaker can develop ethos by explaining how much experience or education she has in the field. After all, you would be more likely to listen to advice about how to take care of your teeth from a dentist than a fire fighter. A speaker can also create ethos by convincing the audience that she is a good person who has their best interests at heart. If an audience cannot trust you, you will not be able to persuade them. Pathos is a speaker s way of connecting with an audience s emotions. For example, a speaker who is trying to convince an audience to vote for him might say that he alone can save the country from a terrible war. These words are intended to fill the audience with fear, thus making them want to vote for him. Similarly, a charity organization that helps animals might show an audience pictures of injured dogs and cats. These images are intended to fill the viewers with pity. If the audience feels bad for the animals, they will be more likely to donate money. Logos is the use of facts, information, statistics, or other evidence to make your argument more convincing. An audience will be more likely to believe you, if you have data to back up your claims. For example, a commercial for soap might tell you that laboratory tests have shown that their soap kills all 7,000,000 of the bacteria living on your hands right now. This piece of information might make you more likely to buy their brand of soap. Presenting this evidence is much more convincing than simply saying, our soap is the best! Use of logos can also increase a speaker s ethos; the more facts a speaker includes in his argument, the more likely you are to think that he is educated and trustworthy. Although ethos, pathos, and logos all have their strengths, they are often most effective when they are used together. Indeed, most speakers use a combination of ethos, pathos, and logos to persuade their audiences. The next time you listen to a speech, watch a commercial, or listen to a friend try to convince you to lend him some money, be on the lookout for these ancient Greek tools of persuasion.
3 Questions: 1.1 What does it mean, to persuade someone? (2) 1.2 According to the text, is it better to use ethos, pathos, logos or a combination of the three persuasion techniques? (1) 1.3 Which country is Aristotle from? (1) 1.4 As used in paragraph 2, which one of the following is the best antonym for credible? A. unintelligent B. boring C. dishonest D. amazing (1) 1.5 Amy is trying to convince her mother to buy her a pair of $200 shoes. She says: Mom, the shoes I have are really old and ugly. If I don t get these new shoes, everyone at school is going to laugh at me. I will be so embarrassed, that I will want to die. What form of persuasion is Amy using here, or is it a combination of the three methods? Explain. (2) 1.6 Explain how logos is more likely to improve ethos than pathos is? (2) 1.7 Refer to paragraph 2: A speaker can also create ethos by convincing the audience that she is a good person, who has their best interests at heart. Explain what the idiom, has their best interests at heart means. (2) 1.8 Gareth is running for mayor. He tells his audience: Under our current mayor, there have been 15,000 new cases of unemployment. If he stays in office, who knows how many more people will lose their jobs? The number could go up even higher. When I was the CEO of Magnatech, I helped to create over 1,000 new jobs. I can do the same thing for this city, if you vote for me. Gareth uses all three forms of persuasion here. Next to each persuasive technique give a phrase from this paragraph which shows this technique being used. (3) 1.9 Is persuasion an abstract or concrete noun? (1) 1.10 Which one of the following is a non-countable noun: A: teeth B: fear C: soap D: speaker (1)
4 1.11 Which one of the following is an abstract noun: A: heart B: interests C: dentist D: fire fighter (1) 1.12 Rewrite the following sentences. Circle the subject and underline the predicate: a) Similarly, a charity organization that helps animals might show an audience pictures of injured dogs and cats. (2) b) This piece of information might make you more likely to buy their brand of soap. (2) 1.13 Imagine you were running an SPCA and you were promoting the welfare of animals. In no more than five sentences, use ethos, pathos and logos to persuade others to donate to your charity. (3) Total: 24
5 Question 2: Poetry Comprehension It is sometimes easy to be confused between appearance and reality. Most people believe photographs give a true reflection of reality, but sometimes they only tell part of the story. Read the following poem and answer the questions which follow in full sentences. Text B Snapshot By Sheila Simmons Look, this is me! 1 Here in this snap the colour of pale tea, With a sprigged frock on, clutching Grandma s hand Out in the grimy yard. A windy day, (she s thrusting back her hair) 5 And warm, (sleeves rolled, arm s bare). Ah, but it doesn t show all! The gold inhuman glaring of the lanky hens Jostling and plaining around the enamel bowl, Or Grandma s fingers, cobwebbed with grime 10 Scooping dry grains, to send them Scattering, bouncing Over feathery backs; How the beaks clinked in the bowl, Stabbed at dropped corn, 15 Threatened my white-socked legs, Or how I shrank behind that safe black bulk... It doesn t show how Gran enticed, Urging me forward, wheedling... Come on, my duck, you give them some. 20 Doesn t record my moments piercing terror, Only shows the empty bowl.
6 Questions: 2.1 Is the first line of this poem a statement, exclamation, question or command? (1) 2.2 Sepia is a term used to describe the colour of an old photograph. Where in the first stanza could you use this word? Rewrite the line using sepia as an adjective. (1) 2.3 What is the main idea of this poem? (2) 2.4 State which adjective is used to describe the garden and say whether this is a negative or positive portrayal of it? (2) 2.5 What do you think is the most important thing that has been left out of the photograph? Explain your answer (2) 2.6 Quote a line from the poem that describes the chickens as evil looking creatures. (2) 2.7 What were the chickens being fed? (1) 2.8 Find a synonym in the poem for: a) holding b) staring c) dirt d) fear (4) 2.9 Find the onomatopoeic verb within stanza 2 of the poem. (1) 2.10 Provide your own two abstract nouns which capture some of the emotions you think the speaker might have experienced whilst the photograph was being taken. (2) 2.11 What does this poem teach us about the reliability of photographs? (2) 2.12 In stanza one, the poem tells us facts about the day the photograph was taken. Evidence has been included to support these facts. State the facts of that day and give the evidence which supports them. (2) 2.13 Explain what the title of the poem means. (1) 2.14 These words are used in Text B. Read the poem again and then match these with the correct definition. (4) Column A: Words Column B: Definitions 1) frock a) to push or knock against others 2) jostling b) persuading someone to do something 3) thrusting c) a woman s dress 4) wheedling d) a single movement of considerable force TOTAL: 27
7 Question 3: Poetic devices Read Text C and answer the questions that follow in full sentences. Text C The Toaster By William Jay Smith A silver scaled Dragon with jaws flaming red Sits at my elbow and toasts my bread. I hand him fat slices, and then, one by one, He hands them back when he sees they are done. Questions 3.1 Quote the metaphor used in this poem? Explain what it means. (2) 3.2 Show how you could change the metaphor mentioned in 3.1 into a (1) simile? 3.3 The toaster has been given two different human traits in this poem that are physically impossible for a toaster to perform. State the two traits given to it and say what this type of poetic device is called. (3) 3.2 b) metaphor a) alliteration kettle c) simile Using the word kettle, a) create a sentence that uses alliteration, b) create a sentence using a metaphor and c) create a sentence using a simile. Each sentence must have the word kettle in it. (3) TOTAL: 9
8 Question 4: Editing Use one of the following to edit the sentences below. State which editing process you have used and rewrite the edited version of the sentence on your answer sheet. Ambiguity punctuation subject-verb agreement spelling grammar Example: Answer: Why was she sent to the office. Punctuation. Why was she sent to the office? 4.1 Reading a book or a magazine help to pass the time. (2) 4.2 A man finds his favourite book after looking for it for years in a library. (2) 4.3 Who am i? (2) 4.4 There playing in class and Mrs Taylor doesn t like it. (2) 4.5 Linda complained that her stomache was very sore. (2) TOTAL: 10
9 Question 5: Word forms Select the appropriate words from the word families in the box and place them in the spaces provided. Each word is to be used once only and two words do not fit in any of the sentences. Only write the number and the answer down. supervisor supervised supervision supervisited supervisory supervising supervisitory 5.1 The manager the loading of the trucks. (1) 5.2 She completed a course in business. (1) 5.3 He had a role. (1) 5.4 The called the staff together. (1) 5.5 The head mistress is the new students. (1) Total: 5 Question 6: Parts of speech Identify the part of speech of the underlined words in the following paragraph. Only write the answer next to the number. Choose the part of speech from the following: Common, noun, proper noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, preposition (6.1) Sheila really wanted to run (6.2) in the race. (6.3)She (6.4)trained very hard and could feel her (6.5) muscular body building slowly. She knew that eventually her hard work would pay off. Total: 5
10 Question 7: Literature-The Billion Dollar Soccer Ball 7.1 Give 2 reasons why the soldiers of Zed visited the village of Gutu on the day of the killing. (2) 7.2 Were Zanu PF, good followers of democracy? Substantiate. (2) 7.3 Why do you think South Africans were attacking the foreigners? What do you think could have been done to avoid these attacks? (2) 7.4 It was quite a storm out there. Are you hungry Deo? asks Gawalia. I have no words. I want to cry at his softly spoken question. When Deo meets Gawalia, he asks him if he would like something to eat. Why does Deo feel like crying when he asks him this? (1) 7.5 Oh and one more thing, Salie says, patting his shirt pocket, telling your story is one of the conditions of making it into the team. Why do you think Salie made the players tell their story of how they ended up living on the streets of Cape Town? (2) 7.6 a) b) Chapter 21 is called Coming down. This begins Deo s journey in Cape Town. What is the literal meaning of coming down? Considering what Deo goes through during this time, what could be ironic about this heading? (1) 7.7 Why did the coach, Salie, decide to make all his players tell each other their stories? (2) 7.8 Why do you think Michael Williams (the author of The Billion Dollar Soccer Ball ) does not end the book by telling us who won the Street Soccer World Cup? (2) 7.9 Explain the theme of prejudice within this book. In your answer: define prejudice describe the 3 prejudice experiences Deo is confronted with in South Africa describe the psychological affect this had on Deo (5) (1) Total: 20 For f Grand Total: 100
This is not for marks however if you have checked all your work and you are happy with your answers you can complete this word search. 11