English Stylistics (ENGA3202)
BA. English Language - ENG
Semester: Second Semester
Level: 300
Year: 2017
The University of Bamenda
Faculty of Arts
Department of English
Course Code:
ENGL 302
Course Instructor: Prof Mbufong/Dr Wandji
Course Title: ENGLISH STYLISTICS
Date
Hall:
Credits 6
Time Allowed 3hrs
Exam duration:
Answer the questions below in good English and neat presentation
SECTION A: ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS
1)
Stylistics is 'the study of literary discourse from a linguistic orientation’. Discuss (35mks)
SECTION B:
ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS
1) Do not say you are abandoned
And deserted friend
For it is the beauty of your exile
That has shown how ugly we have become
Heroes have made their way
Along the Tchollire swamps into nameless
Catacombs, martyrs:
Their limbs became too frozen
For them to rise to their feet, to walk
From a long rutted Ideology-very well-
Where are the hired runners
Who will bridge the fire power
Of our anger across the Mungo
QUESTIONS
1)
What is the situation in this passage?
2)
Identify what aspect of style controls the poem?
3)
Flow does the expression ‘very well’ reveal the mood of the speaker?
4)
Explain the meaning of the last two lines of the first stanza.
5)
With regards to subject matter, style and total impression say whether you like the poem.
(20mks)
2)
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
In forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burn the fires of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What hand dare seize the fire?
QUESTION
1) Using aspects such as deviance, prominence and literary relevance appreciate the poem.
(15mks)
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