Cambridge IGCSE: Literature in English 0475/12
Cambridge IGCSE: Literature in English 0475/12
Cambridge IGCSE: Literature in English 0475/12
1 hour 30 minutes
INSTRUCTIONS
● Answer two questions in total:
Section A: answer one question.
Section B: answer one question.
● Follow the instructions on the front cover of the answer booklet. If you need additional answer paper,
ask the invigilator for a continuation booklet.
INFORMATION
● The total mark for this paper is 50.
● All questions are worth equal marks.
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CONTENTS
Section A: Poetry
text question
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Section B: Prose
text question
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SECTION A: POETRY
Either 1 Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it:
Muliebrity
Or 2 Explore how Millay memorably communicates her thoughts and feelings in Sonnet 29.
Sonnet 29
Either 3 Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it:
Explore the ways in which Hopkins uses words and images so strikingly in this poem.
Or 4 How does Constantine powerfully convey the desire to see dolphins in Watching for
Dolphins?
(David Constantine)
Either 5 Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it:
Head of English
Or 6 In what ways does Duffy make War Photographer such a powerful poem?
War Photographer
SECTION B: PROSE
Either 7 Read this passage, and then answer the question that follows it:
I now stood in the empty hall; before me was the breakfast-room door,
and I stopped, intimidated and trembling. What a miserable little poltroon
had fear, engendered of unjust punishment, made of me in those days!
I feared to return to the nursery, and feared to go forward to the parlour;
ten minutes I stood in agitated hesitation; the vehement ringing of the 5
breakfast-room bell decided me; I must enter.
‘Who could want me?’ I asked inwardly, as with both hands I turned
the stiff door-handle which, for a second or two, resisted my efforts.
‘What should I see besides Aunt Reed in the apartment? – a man or a
woman?’ The handle turned, the door unclosed, and passing through, and 10
curtseying low, I looked up at – a black pillar! – such, at least, appeared to
me, at first sight, the straight, narrow, sable-clad shape standing erect on
the rug; the grim face at the top was like a carved mask, placed above the
shaft by way of capital.
Mrs Reed occupied her usual seat by the fireside; she made a signal 15
to me to approach; I did so, and she introduced me to the stony stranger
with the words –
‘This is the little girl respecting whom I applied to you.’
He – for it was a man – turned his head slowly towards where I stood,
and having examined me with the two inquisitive-looking gray eyes which 20
twinkled under a pair of bushy brows, said solemnly, and in a bass voice –
‘Her size is small; what is her age?’
‘Ten years.’
‘So much?’ was the doubtful answer; and he prolonged his scrutiny
for some minutes. Presently he addressed me – 25
‘Your name, little girl?’
‘Jane Eyre, sir.’
In uttering these words I looked up: he seemed to me a tall gentleman,
but then I was very little; his features were large, and they and all the lines
of his frame were equally harsh and prim. 30
‘Well, Jane Eyre, and are you a good child?’
Impossible to reply to this in the affirmative: my little world held a
contrary opinion: I was silent. Mrs Reed answered for me by an expressive
shake of the head, adding soon, ‘Perhaps the less said on that subject the
better, Mr Brocklehurst.’ 35
‘Sorry indeed to hear it! She and I must have some talk;’ and bending
from the perpendicular, he installed his person in the arm-chair, opposite
Mrs Reed’s. ‘Come here,’ he said.
I stepped across the rug: he placed me square and straight before
him. What a face he had, now that it was almost on a level with mine! what 40
a great nose! and what a mouth! and what large prominent teeth!
‘No sight so sad as that of a naughty child,’ he began, ‘especially a
naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?’
‘They go to hell,’ was my ready and orthodox answer.
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Either 9 Read this passage, and then answer the question that follows it:
Doors opened on to the unlit verandas all around the silent well of
the courtyard where one bare electric bulb burned.
Deven dropped his eyes and his head sank in admission of this
indubitable truth.
(from Chapter 3)
How does Desai make this such a dramatic moment in the novel?
Or 10 In what ways does Desai strikingly convey the desire for money throughout the novel?
Either 11 Read this passage, and then answer the question that follows it:
Sim Jones started off as soon as he was sure that Starks couldn’t
hear him.
They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and
then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.
(from Chapter 5)
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Explore how Hurston memorably portrays Joe Starks and Janie at this moment in the
novel.
Or 12 How far does Hurston show that Janie will not let others decide how she lives her life?
Either 13 Read this passage, and then answer the question that follows it:
Her father kept looking at her with his sharp, pure eye. ‘You make
nothing of my judgment, then?’ 50
‘I can’t believe that!’
‘I don’t ask you to believe it, but to take it on trust.’
Catherine was far from saying to herself that this was an ingenious
sophism; but she met the appeal none the less squarely. ‘What has he
done – what do you know?’ 55
‘He has never done anything – he is a selfish idler.’
‘Oh, father, don’t abuse him!’ she exclaimed, pleadingly.
‘I don’t mean to abuse him; it would be a great mistake. You may do
as you choose,’ he added, turning away.
‘I may see him again?’ 60
‘Just as you choose.’
‘Will you forgive me?’
‘By no means.’
(from Chapter 18)
Or 14 In what ways does James suggest that Morris never really loved Catherine?
Either 15 Read this passage, and then answer the question that follows it:
(from Chapter 2)
How does Knowles make Finny so likeable at this moment in the novel?
Either 17 Read this passage, and then answer the question that follows it:
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the
vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions,
though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering
along with him. 5
The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At one end
of it a coloured poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to
the wall. It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a metre wide:
the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and
ruggedly handsome features. Winston made for the stairs. It was no use 10
trying the lift. Even at the best of times it was seldom working, and at
present the electric current was cut off during daylight hours. It was part of
the economy drive in preparation for Hate Week. The flat was seven flights
up, and Winston, who was thirty-nine and had a varicose ulcer above his
right ankle, went slowly, resting several times on the way. On each landing, 15
opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the
wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes
follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU,
the caption beneath it ran.
Inside the flat a fruity voice was reading out a list of figures which 20
had something to do with the production of pig-iron. The voice came
from an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror which formed part of the
surface of the right-hand wall. Winston turned a switch and the voice sank
somewhat, though the words were still distinguishable. The instrument
(the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way 25
of shutting it off completely. He moved over to the window: a smallish,
frail figure, the meagreness of his body merely emphasized by the blue
overalls which were the uniform of the Party. His hair was very fair, his face
naturally sanguine, his skin roughened by coarse soap and blunt razor
blades and the cold of the winter that had just ended. 30
Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold.
Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper
into spirals, and though the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue,
there seemed to be no colour in anything, except the posters that were
plastered everywhere. The black-moustachio’d face gazed down from 35
every commanding corner. There was one on the house-front immediately
opposite. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption said, while the
dark eyes looked deep into Winston’s own. Down at street level another
poster, torn at one corner, flapped fitfully in the wind, alternately covering
and uncovering the single word INGSOC. In the far distance a helicopter 40
skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a bluebottle,
and darted away again with a curving flight. It was the police patrol,
snooping into people’s windows. The patrols did not matter, however. Only
the Thought Police mattered.
Behind Winston’s back the voice from the telescreen was still babbling 45
away about pig-iron and the overfulfilment of the Ninth Three-Year Plan.
The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that
Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked
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(from Part 1)
How does Orwell make this such a striking opening to the novel?
Either 19 Read this passage, and then answer the question that follows it:
He sat down and covered his face with his hands; and she, seeing
him, fell to sobbing, a creature shamed and tormented.
– Go well, umfundisi.
(from Book 1, Chapter 16)
How does Paton make this such a moving moment in the novel?
Or 20 How does Paton convince you that Absalom never had a chance of a fair trial?
Either 21 Read this passage from The Open Boat (by Stephen Crane), and then answer the
question that follows it:
But later a wave perhaps whirled him out of this small deadly current,
for he found suddenly that he could again make progress toward the 10
shore. Later still, he was aware that the captain, clinging with one hand to
the keel of the dinghy, had his face turned away from the shore and toward
him, and was calling his name. ‘Come to the boat! Come to the boat!’
In his struggle to reach the captain and the boat, he reflected that
when one gets properly wearied, drowning must really be a comfortable 15
arrangement, a cessation of hostilities accompanied by a large degree
of relief, and he was glad of it, for the main thing in his mind for some
moments had been horror of the temporary agony. He did not wish to be
hurt.
The correspondent arrived in water that reached only to his waist, but
his condition did not enable him to stand for more than a moment. Each
wave knocked him into a heap, and the under-tow pulled at him.
Then he saw the man who had been running and undressing, and
undressing and running, come bounding into the water. He dragged ashore 35
the cook, and then waded towards the captain, but the captain waved him
away, and sent him to the correspondent. He was naked, naked as a tree
in winter, but a halo was about his head, and he shone like a saint. He gave
a strong pull, and a long drag, and a bully heave at the correspondent’s
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In the shallows, face downward, lay the oiler. His forehead touched
sand that was periodically, between each wave, clear of the sea.
The correspondent did not know all that transpired afterward. When 45
he achieved safe ground he fell, striking the sand with each particular part
of his body. It was as if he had dropped from a roof, but the thud was
grateful to him.
It seems that instantly the beach was populated with men with
blankets, clothes, and flasks, and women with coffee pots and all the 50
remedies sacred to their minds. The welcome of the land to the men
from the sea was warm and generous, but a still and dripping shape was
carried slowly up the beach; and the land’s welcome for it could only be
the different and sinister hospitality of the grave.
When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, 55
and the wind brought the sound of the great sea’s voice to the men on the
shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters.
How does Crane make this such a memorable ending to the story?
Or 22 Explore the ways in which the writer creates vivid impressions of the narrator in one of
the following stories:
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