ENGHIG511 NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE (NSC) GRADE 11 MID-YEAR EXAMINATION ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE PAPER 2 (NSC11-04) D10055673-7-B TIME: 09H00 11H30 TOTAL: 80 MARKS DURATION: 2½ HOURS DATE: 6 JUNE 2013 This question paper consists of 15 pages. ICG 1 NSC Grade 11
INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION Read the following instructions carefully before answering the questions: 1. Do not attempt to read the entire question paper. Consult the Table of Contents on the next page and mark the numbers of the questions set on the texts that you have studied this year. Thereafter, read those questions only and from them choose the ones you wish to answer. 2. This question paper consists of THREE sections: SECTION A: Poetry SECTION B: Drama Contextual Question SECTION C: Drama Essay 3. Follow the instructions at the beginning of each section carefully. 4. Answer FIVE QUESTIONS: 3 in Section A; 1 in Section B; and 1 in Section C 5. Number your answers exactly as the questions have been numbered in the question paper. 6. Start each section on a NEW page. 7. Please write neatly we cannot mark illegible handwriting. 8. Suggested time management: Section A: approximately 40 minutes Section B: approximately 55 minutes Section C: approximately 55 minutes 9. Any student caught cheating will have his or her examination paper and notes confiscated. The College will take disciplinary measures to protect the integrity of these examinations. 10. If there is something wrong with or missing from your exam paper or your answer book, please inform your invigilator immediately. If you do not inform your invigilator about a problem, the College will not be able to rectify it afterwards, and your marks cannot be adjusted to allow for the problem. 11. This question paper may be removed from the examination hall after the examination has taken place. ICG 2 NSC Grade 11
TABLE OF CONTENTS Use this table to help you choose the questions that you wish to answer. SECTION A: POETRY Prescribed Poetry: Answer any TWO questions. QUESTION NUMBER QUESTION MARKS 1 Not waving but drowning Contextual question 10 AND / OR 2 Ulysses Contextual question 10 AND / OR 3 On His Blindness Contextual question 10 AND / OR 4 An abandoned bundle Essay question 10 AND Unseen Poetry Compulsory: Answer any ONE of the questions. 5 Lament for a dead cow Essay question 10 6 Lament for a dead cow Contextual question 10 SECTION B: DRAMA OR AND Answer any ONE question. 7 Macbeth Contextual question 25 OR 8 Macbeth Contextual question 25 SECTION C: DRAMA Answer any ONE question. AND 9 Macbeth Essay question 25 OR 10 Macbeth Essay question 25 ICG 3 NSC Grade 11
SECTION A POETRY (30 MARKS) NOTES: 1. Questions have been set on FOUR PRESCRIBED poems and ONE UNSEEN poem. You must answer the questions set on ANY TWO PRESCRIBED poems AND the ONE UNSEEN poem. 2. The unseen poem is COMPULSORY. PRESCRIBED POETRY: Answer ANY TWO questions. QUESTION 1 CONTEXTUAL QUESTION Not Waving but Drowning Stevie Smith Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning. Poor chap, he always loved larking 5 And now he's dead It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way, They said. Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) 10 I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning. 1.1 What phrase in the poem tells us that the drowning man seemed insignificant to onlookers? (1) 1.2 Refer to stanza 2: 'his heart gave way' (line 7). 1.2.1 Explain the literal meaning of this image. (1) 1.2.2 Explain the figurative meaning of this image. (1) 1.3 What word in the poem suggests that the man would not have been taken seriously by anyone, even if they had noticed him? (1) 1.4 Apart from the distance from the shore, what other meaning does the phrase 'much too far out' in line 11 have? (2) ICG 4 NSC Grade 11
1.5 1.5.1 Consider the tone of lines 5 6. Which of the following words best justifies the tone? Write the letter of your choice. A. sympathetic B. distressed C. detached D. sad (1) 1.5.2 Explain your answer. (1) 1.6 Whom do you think is to blame for the man's death? (2) [10] AND / OR QUESTION 2 CONTEXTUAL QUESTION from: Ulysses Alfred, Lord Tennyson It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. 5 I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees. All times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades 10 Vext the dim sea. I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known,-- cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but honor'd of them all, 15 And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world whose margin fades 20 For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use! As tho' to breathe were life! Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me 25 Little remains; but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire 30 To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. ICG 5 NSC Grade 11
2.1 Explain how the structure of the opening lines (lines 1 5) contributes to the mood of the speaker at this point in the poem. (3) 2.2 Write TWO of the complaints he makes in the opening lines (lines 1 5) in your own words. (2) 2.3 Refer to lines 6 7: "I will drink life to the lees". Identify ONE figure of speech in this line. (1) 2.4 Explain the effectiveness of the image in lines 6 7. (2) 2.5 Which ONE of the following images emphasises the idea expressed in this image? Write the letter of your choice. A. 'to rust unburnish'd' (line 23) B. 'not to shine in use' (line 23) C. 'to hoard myself' (line 29) D. 'drunk delight of battle' (line 16) (1) 2.6 What is the speaker in the poem longing for? (1) [10] AND / OR QUESTION 3 CONTEXTUAL QUESTION On His Blindness John Milton When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present 5 My true account, lest he returning chide, "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?" I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies: "God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts: who best 10 Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state Is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed And post o'er land and ocean without rest: They also serve who only stand and wait." 3.1 3.1.1 What is the speaker's 'one Talent'? (1) 3.1.2 Why does the speaker say that this Talent is now 'lodged within me useless'? (1) 3.2 What line expresses the speaker's main concern? Write the line from the poem in your own words. (2) 3.3 Name and explain the figure of speech in lines 8 and 9. (3) ICG 6 NSC Grade 11
3.4 What do you think the last line means? (2) 3.5 Based on its structure and rhyme scheme, what type of poem is this? (1) [10] AND / OR QUESTION 4 ESSAY QUESTION An Abandoned Bundle Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali The morning mist and chimney smoke of White City Jabavu flowed thick yellow as pus oozing 5 from a gigantic sore. It smothered our little houses like fish caught in a net. Scavenging dogs draped in red bandanas of blood 10 fought fiercely for a squirming bundle. I threw a brick they bared fangs flicked velvet tongues of scarlet 15 and scurried away, leaving a mutilated corpsean infant dumped on a rubbish heap- 'Oh! Baby in the Manger sleep well 20 on human dung.' Its mother had melted into the rays of the rising sun, her face glittering with innocence her heart as pure as untrampled dew. 25 Explore the poet's effective use of figurative language and specific words to create a shock-effect in his treatment of the subject matter of this poem. Your response should be 200 250 words long. [10] AND ICG 7 NSC Grade 11
UNSEEN POETRY COMPULSORY Read the following poem and answer EITHER QUESTION 5 (essay question) OR QUESTION 6 (contextual question). Lament 1 for a dead cow Francis Carey Slater (1876 1958) (Chant by Xhosa family on the death of Wetu, their only cow) Siyalila, siyalila, inkomo yetu ifile 2! 1 Beautiful was Wetu as a blue shadow That nests on the grey rocks About a sunbaked hilltop: Her coat was black and shiny 5 Like an isipingo-berry; Her horns were as sharp as the horns of the new moon That tosses aloft 3 the evening star; Her rounds eyes were as clear and soft As a mountain-pool, 10 Where shadows dive from the high rocks. No more will Wetu banish teasing flies With her whistling tail; No more will she face yapping curs 4 With lowered horns and bewildered eyes; 15 No more will her slow shadow Comfort the sunburnt veld, and her sweet lowing Delight the hills in the evening. The fountain that filled our calabashes 5 Has been drained by a thirsty sun; 20 The black cloud that brought us white rain Has vanished the sky is empty; Our kraal 6 is desolate; Our calabashes are dry: And we weep. 25 Glossary: 1 lament: a song of mourning 2 Siyalila, siyalila, inkomo yetu ifile: We weep, we weep, our cow is dead! 3 aloft: up 4 yapping curs: barking dogs 5 calabashes: shells of large fruit dried and used as bowls 6 kraal: homestead QUESTION 5 UNSEEN POETRY: ESSAY QUESTION By closely analysing the imagery and figures of speech in this poem, describe what the cow meant to the family and the effect of its loss on the family. The length of your essay should be approximately 200 250 words. [10] OR ICG 8 NSC Grade 11
QUESTION 6 UNSEEN POETRY: CONTEXTUAL QUESTION 6.1 What kind of mood is evoked by the Xhosa lament at the start of the poem? (1) 6.2 What purpose is served by the many details that make up this poem? (2) 6.3 The descriptions of "whistling tail" and "yapping curs" (lines 13 14) are examples of: A. Americanisms B. onomatopoeia C. assonance D. euphemisms (1) 6.4 6.4.1 Write ONE simile from the poem. (1) 6.4.2 Explain the effectiveness of the simile. (1) 6.5 6.5.1 How did the cow die? (1) 6.5.2 Quote just ONE phrase from the poem as evidence to support your answer. (1) 6.6 Refer to line 24. Give an explanation of the symbolic meaning of this line. (2) [10] TOTAL SECTION A: 30 ICG 9 NSC Grade 11
SECTION B DRAMA (25 MARKS) ANSWER ONE OF THE CONTEXTUAL QUESTIONS IN THIS SECTION MACBETH BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE QUESTION 7 CONTEXTUAL QUESTION Read the extract below and then answer the questions that follow: MACBETH [Aside] Glamis, and thane of Cawdor: The greatest is behind. 115 To ROSS and ANGUS Thanks for your pains. To BANQUO Do you not hope your children shall be kings, When those that gave the thane of Cawdor to me Promised no less to them? BANQUO That trusted home 120 Might yet enkindle you unto the crown, Besides the thane of Cawdor. But 'tis strange: And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's 125 In deepest consequence. Cousins, a word, I pray you. MACBETH [Aside] Two truths are told, As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the imperial theme. I thank you, gentlemen. 130 [Aside] This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good: if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor: If good, why do I yield to that suggestion 135 Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair ICG 10 NSC Grade 11
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings: My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, 140 Shakes so my single state of man, That function is smother'd in surmise, And nothing is, but what is not. http://shakespeare.mit.edu/macbeth/full.html 7.1 What is an "aside" (line 114)? (1) 7.2 Macbeth's aside, "Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor: / The greatest is behind" (lines 114 115), is in reaction to the news that he has just received. 7.2.1 What is this news? (1) 7.2.2 What does he mean by "The greatest is behind"? (2) 7.2.3 The fact that Macbeth receives the title of Thane of Cawdor is ironic when one considers the reason why the original Thane of Cawdor lost his title. Explain the irony. (2) 7.3 "... those that gave the Thane of Cawdor to me" (line118). 7.3.1 Who does Macbeth refer to by "those" in the quoted words? (1) 7.3.2 Did they, in fact, give him the title? Explain your answer. (2) 7.4 What was the witches' prophesy for Banquo? (2) 7.5 Refer to lines 122 126. 7.5.1 Banquo refers to the witches as "the instruments of darkness" (line 124). What does this say about his attitude towards them? (1) 7.5.2 In your OWN WORDS, say what he is trying to warn Macbeth about in lines 122 126. (2) 7.6 What is it that Macbeth clearly expresses for the first time in lines 129 130? (1) 7.7 "Cannot be ill; cannot be good" (line 132) 7.7.1 How do the quoted words reveal Macbeth's current state of mind? (2) 7.7.2 Quote a SINGLE LINE from the extract from lines 134 143 that supports your answer to 7.7.1. (1) ICG 11 NSC Grade 11
7.7.3 Complete the statement made earlier in the play by the witches that is also contradictory, like the words spoken here by Macbeth: Fair is...,............. (1) 7.8 Quote the SINGLE WORD from lines 134 143 that shows what Macbeth knows he will have to do, to gain the crown. (1) 7.9 Read lines 135 137. 7.9.1 What does Macbeth's first reaction to the news of the witches reveal about his character at this point? (2) 7.9.2 How does his character change after he becomes king? (2) 7.10 Read line 142: "Function is smother'd in surmise." Macbeth says that he cannot think of what action to take now, because he has too many wild imaginings. What action following this news will make him consider immediate action? (1) [25] OR QUESTION 8 CONTEXTUAL QUESTION Read the extract below and then answer the questions that follow: MACBETH Bring them before us. Exit Attendant To be thus is nothing; But to be safely thus.--our fears in Banquo Stick deep; and in his royalty of nature 50 Reigns that which would be fear'd: 'tis much he dares; And, to that dauntless temper of his mind, He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour To act in safety. There is none but he Whose being I do fear: and, under him, 55 My Genius is rebuked; as, it is said, Mark Antony's was by Caesar. He chid the sisters When first they put the name of king upon me, And bade them speak to him: then prophet-like They hail'd him father to a line of kings: 60 ICG 12 NSC Grade 11
Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my gripe, Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding. If 't be so, For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind; 65 For them the gracious Duncan have I murder'd; Put rancours in the vessel of my peace Only for them; and mine eternal jewel Given to the common enemy of man, To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings! 70 Rather than so, come fate into the list. And champion me to the utterance! Who's there? Re-enter Attendant, with two Murderers http://shakespeare.mit.edu/macbeth/full.html 8.1 In the given extract Macbeth speaks while he is alone on stage. 8.1.1 In dramatic terms, as what is the device where the character speaks alone on stage known? (1) 8.1.2 What is the purpose of this device? (2) 8.2 "To be thus, is nothing; / But to be safely thus:" (lines 48 49). 8.2.1 What is Macbeth saying here? (2) 8.2.2 Why is it unlikely that Macbeth will ever feel safe as king? (2) 8.3 Why is Banquo's "royalty of nature" (line 50) a particular source of pain to Macbeth now? (2) 8.4 "And, to that dauntless temper of his mind," (line 52) 8.4.1 What do these words say about Banquo? (2) 8.4.2 How does Banquo display the "dauntless temper of his mind" when they first meet the witches earlier in the play? (2) 8.5 Who are "the sisters" (line 57)? (1) 8.6 The witches make prophecies for both Banquo and Macbeth. 8.6.1 How does Macbeth feel about the prophecies for Banquo after he has killed the king? (2) 8.6.2 How does Macbeth plan to make sure that the witches' prophecies concerning Banquo never come true? (2) ICG 13 NSC Grade 11
8.7 "... and mine eternal jewel / Given to the common enemy of man" (lines 68 69). 8.7.1 How does this line reveal that Macbeth is aware of the consequences of his murder of Duncan? (2) 8.8 Explain Lady Macbeth's role in realising the witches' prophecy for Macbeth. (4) 8.9 Complete the following statement by adding one word: Macbeth admits that Banquo has "wisdom" to guide him (line 53); Macbeth, on the other hand, is driven by. (1) [25] TOTAL SECTION B: 25 ICG 14 NSC Grade 11
SECTION C DRAMA (25 MARKS) ANSWER ONE OF THE ESSAY QUESTIONS IN THIS SECTION MACBETH BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE QUESTION 9 ESSAY QUESTION In a tragic drama, the tragic hero is the main character who is morally good, but has a major flaw in his or her character. The audience feels pity, sympathy, empathy and compassion. This flaw is an error in judgement, which eventually leads to his or her death. Discuss the character of Macbeth as a tragic hero. [25] OR QUESTION 10 ESSAY QUESTION It could be argued that Macbeth is not evil by nature, but once his ambition has been sparked there is no stopping the inevitable consequences of his actions. Discuss this statement. [25] TOTAL SECTION C: 25 GRAND TOTAL: 80 MARKS ICG 15 NSC Grade 11