IGCSE Sample Questions RHE

Sample Exam Questions
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Paper 1
Either 1 Re-read Mid-term Break.

Explore the ways in which Heaney makes this such a moving poem.

Or 2 Explore the ways work is depicted in two of the following poems:

Monologue (by Hone Tuwhare) Song to the Men of England (by Percy Bysshe Shelley) Before the Sun (by Charles Mungoshi)

Or 3 Explore what you find most striking about the imagery of two of the following poems:

Caged Bird (by Maya Angelou) Rising Five (by Norman Nicholson) Before the Sun (by Charles Mungoshi)

Paper 2
Either 1 Explore the ways the poets strikingly convey a sense of character in either Storyteller (by Liz Loch head) or Farmhand (by James Baxter).

Or 2 Explore the ways in which attitudes to children and work are depicted in both Carpet-weavers, Morocco (by Carol Rumens) and Muliebrity (by Sujata Bhatt).

Or 3 Explore how feelings about childhood are depicted in two of the following poems:

Little Boy Crying (by Mervyn Morris) Rising Five (by Norman Nicholson) Plenty (by Isobel Dixon)

Paper 3
Either 1 Explore how a powerful impression of character is created by the poets in both The Justice of the Peace (by Hillaire Belloc) and From Spectator Ab Extra (by Arthur Hugh Clough).

Or 2 Explore how either Little Boy Crying (by Mervyn Morris) or Those Winter Sundays (by Robert Hayden) portray the relationship between adult and child.

Or 3 The Old Familiar Faces (by Charles Lamb), Mid-term Break (by Seamus Heaney) and She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways (by William Wordsworth) all deal with memory of the past. Explore how two of the poets vividly convey the impact of memory of the past.