cameroon gce A level June 2024 literature in English 3
cameroon gce A level June 2024 literature in English 3
SECTION A –
Come, leave your (cars, A brief farewell, flic beast
Willi many heads bulls me away, Nay, mother,
Where Is your ancient courage? Yon were used
To soy exireinilies wos the trier ofspirits,-
Thai common chances common men could bear;
Thai when the sea was calm all boats alike;
Showed mastership in floating; fortunes blows,
When most struck home, being gentle wounded, craves
A noble cunning. You were used to load me
Precepts that would make invincible
The heart that conned them.
O heavens!
CORIOLANUS: Nay, I prithee, womanVOLUMNIA: Now the red pestilence strikes all trades in Rome,
And occupations perish!
What, what, what?
I shall be loved whenIam lacked. Nay, mother,
Resume that spirit, when you were wont to say
If you had been the wife Hercules,
Six of his labours you’d have done, and saved
Your husband so much sweat. Cominius,
Droop not. Adieu. Farewell, my wife, my mother.
I’ll do well yet. Thou old and true Menenius,
Thy tears are saltier than a young man’s,
And venomous to thine eyes. My sometime general,
I have seen thee stern,and thou hast oft beheld
Heart-hard’ning spectacles. Tell these sad women
‘Tisfond to wall inevitable strokes,
As ‘ /is to laugh at ’em. My mother, you wot well,
My hazards still have been your solace, and
Believc’t not lightly (though I go alone,
Like to a lonely dragon, and his fen
Makes feared and talked of more than seen) your son
Will or exceed the common, or be caught
With cautelous baits and practice.
a) Put the italicized lines in good modern English prose:
i) Where is your ancient ….was the trier ofspirits,- ( lines 3-4 )
to laugh at ’em.
b) Identify and illustrate any two central themes developed in the extract.
c) Comment on the author’s effective use of any two figures of speech in the extract.
d) Ilow accurate is Coriolanus’ predictions about his future expressed in (lines 33-35)?
c) In preparation for putting this scene on stage, suggest the following:
i) One stage prop that Coriolanus needs and explain the reason or necessity for it.
ii) An appropriate colour of dress for Volumnia and Virgilia and explain your choice.
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