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    QUESTION 2: CONTEXTUAL QUESTION: TALK TO THE PEACH TREE – SIPHO SAPAMLA

    3.1 Explain the writer's mentioning of the heat as “paralysing” and “merciless”
    (stanza 6). (2)
    ‘paralising’……………………………………………………………………………….…………………………………………………………….. (UNPACK)
    ‘merciless’ ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………(UNPACK)

    3.2 Account for swallows being a good source of information about ‘other countries’. (2)

    Swallows ………………………………………………………………………………………….……………………………………………………………………..
    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… because
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. (EXPLAIN)

    3.3 Discuss the effectiveness of the imagery in stanza 4. (3)

    The image ………………………………………………………………………………….…………………………………………………………………………….

    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
    The image ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
    These images show that ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………(effectiveness)

    3.4 Critically comment on how the tone in the final stanza reinforces the central message
    of the poem. (3)

    The tone of the final stanza is ……………………………………………………….………………………………………………………which


    reinforces the central message of ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

    …………………………..……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

    I feel that ……………….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. (critical comment)


    QUESTION 3: CONTEXTUAL QUESTION: AT A FUNERAL – DENNIS BRUTUS

    3.1 What does the word, 'pageantry' (line 1) convey about the speaker’s view of
    the funeral? (2)
    ‘pageantry’……………………………………………………………………………….…………………………………………………………….. (UNPACK)
    which………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… (VIEW)

    3.2 Explain what ‘devours, with our hopes’ (line 6) suggests about the effects of
    Valencia Majombozi’s death on those people fighting against apartheid.
    (2)

    The effect is ………………………………………………………………………………………….……………………………………………………………………..


    because …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. (EXPLAIN)

    3.3 Refer to line 8: 'Aborted, not by Death but carrion books of birth'.
    Discuss the effectiveness of this image in the context of the poem. (3)

    Image ………………………………………………………………………………………….…………………………………………………………………………….

    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
    ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. (context)
    ……………….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………(effectiveness)

    3.4 Critically discuss how the speaker addresses the reader in line 9: ‘Arise!...stirs our
    earth’. (3)

    Address is ………………………………………………………………………………………….……………………………………………………………………

    ………………………………………………………………… to ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

    …………………………..……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

    ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… (unpack line)

    I feel that ……………….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. (critical comment)


    QUESTION 4: POETRY - CONTEXTUAL QUESTION: POEM OF RETURN – J. Rocha

    4.1 What does the word, ‘silence’ (line 1) convey about the speaker's experience of
    exile? (2)

    ‘silence’.............................………………………………………………………….…………………………………………………………….. (UNPACK)
    because ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… (CONTEXT)

    4.2 Explain why the speaker does not want people to ‘bring [him] flowers’ on his
    return (lines 2 and 10). (2)

    FLOWERS ………………………………………………………………………………………….…………………………………………………….. UNPACK)


    ………………..…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. (EXPLAIN)

    4.3 Refer to line 8: 'their arms bereft of sons.'


    Discuss the effectiveness of this image in the context of the poem. (3)

    Image ………………………………………………………………………………………….…………………………………………………………………………….

    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
    ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. (context)
    ……………….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………(effectiveness)

    4.4 Critically discuss how the mood of the poem is created in lines 12 to 13:
    12. the last wish of heroes fallen at day-break
    13. with a wingless stone in hand (3)

    The mood is ………………………………………………………………………………………….………………… (ONE WORD EMOTION)

    Diction/ Image ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

    I feel that ……………….………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. (critically discuss)

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