CSEC June2011 EnglishB Ques6
English B
SECTION B
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POETRY
Answer ONE question in this section.
6.
Choose TWO poems that you have studied, in which something OR someone is admired.
(a)
Describe what OR who is admired.
(b)
Identify and discuss how the poet uses ONE poetic device in EACH poem to show this admiration. (8 marks)
(8 marks)
(c)
Which poem do you find more appealing in its presentation of admiration? Use evidence from the poem to support your answer.
(9 marks)
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The CSEC English syllabus outlines the skills that arc tested by the English B examination. Four critical skills that are outlined by the s)llabus are the testing of (i) description (the outlinimt of relevant content). anal\ sis tthe abilit\ to break do n. select and comment on the sienificance of relevant details) and. synthesis (the ability to bring together and condense in a ne form information drawn From arious sections of a text for the purpose of ansu ering a particular question): (u) the ability to communicate informed opinions and judgernents in well-structured. analytical responses in oral and written form using the vocabulary of literary criticism; (iii) the ability to recognise the ssriter’s craft (the writer as a person who employs various techniques in the shaping of language and the presentation of character and behaviour) and (iv) the ability to respond to West Indian and other Literatures in English: novels short stories, poems and plays: to make rational and sensitive appraisal of a)ue judgements, states of consciousness and other concepts explored in literature, and relate these to e’eryday lix ing.
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SECTION B
-
POETRY
Answer ONE question in this section.
6.
Choose TWO poems that you have studied, in which something OR someone is admired.
(a)
Describe what OR who is admired.
(b)
Identify and discuss how the poet uses ONE poetic device in EACH poem to show this admiration. (8 marks)
(8 marks)
(c)
Which poem do you find more appealing in its presentation of admiration? Use evidence from the poem to support your answer.
(9 marks)
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The CSEC English syllabus outlines the skills that arc tested by the English B examination. Four critical skills that are outlined by the s)llabus are the testing of (i) description (the outlinimt of relevant content). anal\ sis tthe abilit\ to break do n. select and comment on the sienificance of relevant details) and. synthesis (the ability to bring together and condense in a ne form information drawn From arious sections of a text for the purpose of ansu ering a particular question): (u) the ability to communicate informed opinions and judgernents in well-structured. analytical responses in oral and written form using the vocabulary of literary criticism; (iii) the ability to recognise the ssriter’s craft (the writer as a person who employs various techniques in the shaping of language and the presentation of character and behaviour) and (iv) the ability to respond to West Indian and other Literatures in English: novels short stories, poems and plays: to make rational and sensitive appraisal of a)ue judgements, states of consciousness and other concepts explored in literature, and relate these to e’eryday lix ing.
In short students are