WYNBERG BOYS HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE GRADE 10 LITERATURE TEST MARCH 2012 TIME: 1 hr EXAMINERS: GO/DM TOTAL: 40 SECTION A: and Juliet QUESTION 1 Read the passage below and answer the following questions: Enter See, where he comes: so please you, step aside; I'll know his grievance, or be much denied. MONTAGUE I would thou wert so happy by thy stay, To hear true shrift. Come, madam, let's away. Exeunt MONTAGUE and LADY MONTAGUE Good-morrow, cousin. Is the day so young? But new struck nine. Ay me! sad hours seem long. Was that my father that went hence so fast? It was. What sadness lengthens 's hours? Not having that, which, having, makes them short. In love? Out-- Of love? Out of her favour, where I am in love. Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof! Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will! Where shall we dine? O me! What fray was here? Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all. Here's much to do with hate, but more with love. Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness! serious vanity! Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms! Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this. Dost thou not laugh? No, coz, I rather weep. Good heart, at what? At thy good heart's oppression. Why, such is love's transgression. Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, Which thou wilt propagate, to have it prest With more of thine: this love that thou hast shown Doth add more grief to too much of mine own. Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears: What is it else? a madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet. Farewell, my coz. Soft! I will go along; An if you leave me so, you do me wrong. Tut, I have lost myself; I am not here; This is not, he's some other where. Tell me in sadness, who is that you love. What, shall I groan and tell thee? Groan! why, no. But sadly tell me who. Bid a sick man in sadness make his will: Ah, word ill urged to one that is so ill! In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman. I aim'd so near, when I supposed you loved. A right good mark-man! And she's fair I love. A right fair mark, fair coz, is soonest hit. Well, in that hit you miss: she'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow; she hath Dian's wit; And, in strong proof of chastity well arm'd, From love's weak childish bow she lives unharm'd. She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes, Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold: O, she is rich in beauty, only poor, That when she dies with beauty dies her store. Then she hath sworn that she will still live chaste? She hath, and in that sparing makes huge waste, For beauty starved with her severity Cuts beauty off from all posterity. She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair, To merit bliss by making me despair: She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow Do I live dead that live to tell it now.
Be ruled by me, forget to think of her. O, teach me how I should forget to think. By giving liberty unto thine eyes; Examine other beauties. 1.1 Explain the symbolic significance of walking under the sycamore trees. (1) 1.2 is the picture of the courtly lover. Prove this statement by referring to his actions. (3) 1.3 Prove that Montague and his wife do not understand the reason for their son s depression. (Do not quote.) (1) 1.4 describes his love as a brawling love and a loving hate. 1.4.1 The same figure of speech is being employed in both of the above quotations. What is it? (1) 1.4.2 Explain the figure of speech as it is used in each of the above quotations. (2) 1.5 What is Benvolio s advice to? (2) /10/ QUESTION 2 Read the conversation in the passage below and answer the following questions: If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this. My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. Juliet Juliet Juliet Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, Which mannerly devotion shows in this. For saints have hands that pilgrims hands do touch, And palm to palm is holy palmer s kiss. Have no saints lips, and holy palmers too? Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer. O, then dear saint, let lips do what hands do! They pray: grant thou, lest faith turn to despair. Saints do not move, though grant for prayers sake. Then move not while my prayer s effect I take. (He kisses her.) Thus from my lips, by thine my sin is purged. 90 95 100 Juliet Then have my lips the sin that they have took. 105 Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again. (He kisses her.) 2.1 Suggest one reason why the conversation (until line 103) is styled in sonnet form. (2) 2.2 refers to Juliet as a saint. What does this tell us about how he sees her? (2) 2.3 How is the quality of s love for Juliet different to the love he had for Rosaline? (2) 2.4.1 What is the dominant figure of speech employed throughout this conversation? (1)
2.4.2 Explain the comparisons made by (a) and (b) Juliet in this figure of speech. (2) 2.5 Juliet s response is flirtatious, but also witty and intelligent. Quote one word (from her opening words) that informs us that she is in tune with s vision of her. (1) /10/ [20] SECTION B: POETRY QUESTION 3 DEATH BE NOT PROUD John Donne Death be not proud, thou some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so, For, those, whom thou think st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, 5 Much pleasure, them from thee, much more must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul s delivery. Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, 10 And poppy, or charms can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke; why swell st thou then? One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die. 3.1 What type of sonnet is this? [1] 3.2 Write down the rhyme scheme of this poem. [1] 3.3.1 What is the dominant figure of speech used throughout the poem? [1] 3.3.2 Explain your answer in 3.3.1. [2] 3.3.3 Quote two examples of this figure of speech to substantiate your answer further. [2] 3.4 Explain the poet s claim that rest and sleep are only pictures of death. [2] /9/ QUESTION 4
FEAR NO MORE THE HEAT O THE SUN - William Shakespeare Fear no more the heat o the sun; Fear no more the lightning-flash, Nor the furious winter s rages, Nor the all-dread thunder-stone; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Fear not slander, censure rash; 15 Home art gone, and ta en thy wages; Thou hast finished joy and moan; Golden lads and girls all must, 5 All lovers young, all lovers must As chimney sweepers come to dust. Consign to thee, and come to dust. Fear no more the frown of the great, Thou art past the tyrant s stroke: Care no more to clothe and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak: 10 The sceptre, learning physic, must All follow this, and come to dust. 4.1 What is the worldly task that is referred to in line 3? [1] 4.2 What point does the speaker make by comparing golden lads and girls to chimney sweepers? (lines 5 and 6) [2] 4.3 Explain what is meant by the frown of the great (line 7). [1] 4.4 The sceptre (line 11) is an example of which figure of speech? [1] 4.5 Explain the effect of the repetition of the words come to dust at the end of each stanza. [1] /6/ [15]
SECTION A: and Juliet QUESTION 1 MEMORANDUM OF SUGGESTED ANSWERS Read the passage below and answer the following questions: 1.1 Explain the symbolic significance of walking under the sycamore trees. (1) The sycamore is associated with love sickness (sick amour). 1.2 is the picture of the courtly lover. Prove this statement by referring to his actions. (3) He is melancholic, isolates himself, cannot sleep, does not eat or drink and suffers because his unrequited love. 1.3 Prove that Montague and his wife do not understand the reason for their son s depression. (Do not quote.) (1) They send Benvolio to investigate. 1.4 describes his love as a brawling love and a loving hate. 1.4.1 The same figure of speech is being employed in both of the above quotations. What is it? (1) oxymoron 1.4.2 Explain the figure of speech as it is used in each of the above quotations. (2) brawling love = The Montagues are feuding with the Capulets. loving hate = is in love when he shouldn t be (because Rosaline won t return his love. 1.5 What is Benvolio s advice to? (2) Benvolio suggests that tries to find someone else to admire because then he will quickly forget about Rosaline. /10/ 2.1 Suggest one reason why the conversation is styled in sonnet form. (2) It was conventionally used to express love and passion. Accept it was common at the time for lovers (in play) to speak in sonnet form. 2.2 refers to Juliet as a saint. What does this tell us about how he sees her? (2) He respects and admires her and sees her as unique. 2.3 How is the quality of s love for Juliet different to the love he had for Rosaline? (2) Rosaline love is unrequited. Juliet love is requited. 2.4.1 What is the dominant figure of speech employed throughout this conversation? (1) Extended metaphor 2.4.2 Explain the comparisons as they are made by both and Juliet (each) in this figure of speech. (2) (a) compares Juliet to a very valuable and holy entity (saint) (b) Juliet responds by referring to as (pilgrim) someone who visits a holy shrine. 2.5 Juliet s response is flirtatious, but also witty and intelligent. Quote one word that informs us that she is in tune with s vision of her. (1) pilgrim /10/ [20]
3.1 What type of sonnet is this? [1] English 3.2 Write down the rhyme scheme of this poem. [1] Abba abba cddc ee 3.3.1 What is the dominant figure of speech used throughout the poem? [1] personification 3.3.2 Explain your answer in 3.3.1. [2] The poet personifies death, speaking to death as if it s a person. 3.3.3 Quote two examples of this figure of speech to substantiate your answer further. [2] Death be not proud / Thou art slave andndost with poison, war and sickness dwell / why swell st thou then? etc. [any 2] 3.4 Explain the poet s claim that rest and sleep are only pictures of death. [2] Rest and sleep rejuvenate us and make us feel good, and they re just a taste / sample of the real thing death. 4.1 What is the worldly task that is referred to in line 3? [1] The living of life. 4.2 What point does the speaker make by comparing golden lads and girls to chimney sweepers? [2] Regardless of being wealthy and rich and young, or poor and unfortunate, all people are equal in death / death comes to everyone regardless of status. 4.3 Explain what is meant by the frown of the great (line 7). [1] The harsh rule of those in authority / government. 4.4 The sceptre (line 11) is an example of which figure of speech? [1] metonymy 4.5 Explain the effect of the repetition of the words come to dust at the end of each stanza. [1] Death is inevitable / will happen / no escape, etc. [15]