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LOWER SECONDARY Literature 20 Marks

MAY 2016 40 Minutes

MID YEAR EXAMINATION

SECONDARY TWO EXPRESS

READ THESE INSTURCTIONS FIRST

Write your name and date in the spaces provided on the work you hand in.
Write in dark blue or black ink on both sides of the paper.
Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid.
You may use a pencil for any diagrams or graphs.

Answer all the questions

The total marks for this paper is 20.

The number of marks is given in brackets at the start of each section.

This paper consists of 6 printed pages, including the cover page.

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Section A: Visual Text (8 marks)

1.Refer to the visual below and answer question 1.

(a) What do you think is the message behind the poster? [1]

(b) Who is the target audience of the poster? [1]

(c) How does the picture bring across the message of the poster? [2]

(d) How does the sentence ‘’ I am not medicine’’ reiterate the message of the poster? [1]

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 (e) What is the purpose of the website at the bottom of the poster? Which group of people do
you think that will visit the poster? [2]

(f) Who do you think is most likely the organiser of the event? [1]

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Section B: Unseen Poetry (12 marks)

2. Study the poem below carefully and answer question 2.

In the poem below, the persona is talking about his views to death.
Thomas Nashe
Adieu, farewell, earth's bliss;
This world uncertain is;
Fond are life's lustful joys;
Death proves them all but toys;
None from his darts can fly;
I am sick, I must die.
Lord, have mercy on us!

Rich men, trust not in wealth,

Gold cannot buy you health;
Physic himself must fade.
All things to end are made,
The plague full swift goes by;
I am sick, I must die.
Lord, have mercy on us!

Beauty is but a flower

Which wrinkles will devour;
Brightness falls from the air;
Queens have died young and fair;
Dust hath closed Helen's eye.
I am sick, I must die.
Lord, have mercy on us!

Strength stoops unto the grave,

Worms feed on Hector brave;
Swords may not fight with fate,
Earth still holds open her gate.
"Come, come!" the bells do cry.
I am sick, I must die.
Lord, have mercy on us!

Wit with his wantonness

Tasteth death's bitterness;
Hell's executioner
Hath no ears for to hear
What vain art can reply.
I am sick, I must die.
Lord, have mercy on us!

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Haste, therefore, each degree,
To welcome destiny;
Heaven is our heritage,
Earth but a player's stage;
Mount we unto the sky.
I am sick, I must die.
Lord, have mercy on us
(a) Who is the persona of this poem? [1]

(b) What is the rhyme scheme found in the first stanza? [1]

(c) What is the persona’s view towards death with reference to the first four lines of the poem?
[1]

(d) Which sentence warns the rich that no amount of money will keep them from death? [1]

(e) Why did the author compare ‘’life’s lustful joys’’ (line 3) as ‘’toys’’ (line 4)? [1]

(f) How is the first two lines of stanza 3 ironic? Why do you think is the purpose of the persona
doing so? [2]

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 (g) What does the author meant by ‘’ earth still holds open her gate’’? what is the literary used
here? [2]

(h) What is your impression of the persona? [3]

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SETTER: YI XIANG

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