cameroon gce O level June 2023 literature in English 2

cameroon gce O level June 2023 literature in English 2

cameroon gce O level June 2023 literature in English 2

PART ONE (OLD SYLLABUS)
SECTION A: DRAMA
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: AS YOU LIKE IT
1. Read the following passage and answer the questions below it.
[Coming forward] And why, I pray you? Who might be
your mother,
That you insult, exult, and all at once,
Over the wretched? What though you have no beauty
As, by my faith, I see no more in you 5
Than without candle may go dark to bed-
Must you be therefore proud and pitiless?
Why, what means this? Why do you look on me?
I see no more in you than in the ordinary
Of nature’s sale-work, ‘Od’s my little life 10
I think she means to tangle my eyes too!
No, faith, proud mistress, hope not after it;
`T is not your inky brows, your black silk hair,
Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream,
That can entame my spirits to your worship. 15
You foolish shepherd, wherefore do you follow her,
Like foggy south, puffing with wind andrain?
You are a thousand times a properer man
Than she a woman.
(a) (i) Who is speaking and to whom? (1/1 = 2 marks)
(ii) Where are they? (1 mark)
(b) Who is the foolish shepherd addressed in this manner? (2 marks)
(c) What prompted the speaker to speak in this manner? (2 marks)
(d) Give the meaning of the following words and expressions as used in the extract.
(i) Exult (Line 3) (2 marks)
(ii) The ordinary (Line 4) (2 marks)
(iii) Inky brows (Line 8) (2 marks)
(iv) Properer (Line 11) (2 marks)
(e) Pick out two figures of speech used in the passage and show how effectively they have been used.
(2/2 = 4 marks)
(f) Give an account of the rest of the scene from which this extract is taken. (/2/2/2 = 6 marks)
(Total = 25 marks)
2. Read the following passage and answer the questions below it.
Speaker A:
When last the young Orlando parted from you,
He left a promise to return again
Within an hour; and, pacing through the forest,
Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy,
Lo, what befell. He threw his eyes aside, 5
And mark what object did present itself.
Under an oak, whose boughs were mossed with age And high top bald with dry antiquity,
‘A wretched ragged man, o’ergrown with hair,
Lay sleeping on his back; about his neck 10
A green and gilded snake had wreathed itself,
Who with her head nimble in threats approached
The opening of his mouth; but suddenly,
Seeing Orlando, it unlinked itself,
And with indented glides did slip away 15
Into a bush; under which bush’s shade
A lioness, with udders all drawn dry,
Lay couching, head on ground, with catlike watch,
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