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CEL 103 - Stylistics and Literary Techniques

This document outlines the examination structure for the CEL103 course on Stylistics and Literary Techniques at Murang’a University of Technology for the 2023/2024 academic year. It includes instructions for candidates, a breakdown of questions in two sections, and specific tasks related to literary analysis and techniques. The examination lasts for two hours and requires students to answer a total of three questions, including one mandatory question.

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CEL 103 - Stylistics and Literary Techniques

This document outlines the examination structure for the CEL103 course on Stylistics and Literary Techniques at Murang’a University of Technology for the 2023/2024 academic year. It includes instructions for candidates, a breakdown of questions in two sections, and specific tasks related to literary analysis and techniques. The examination lasts for two hours and requires students to answer a total of three questions, including one mandatory question.

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MURANG’A UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL


SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

UNIVERSITY ORDINARY EXAMINATION

2023/2024 ACADEMIC YEAR


FIRST YEAR SECOND SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR BACHELOR OF
EDUCATION (ARTS)

CEL103- STYLISTICS AND LITERARY TECHNIQUES


DURATION: 2 HOURS

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES:

1. Answer question one and any other two questions.


2. Mobile phones are not allowed in the examination room.
3. You are not allowed to write on this examination question paper.

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SECTION A: ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS IN THIS SECTION

QUESTION ONE (30 MARKS)

a) Explain five ways in which the speaker and the literary writer perform similar functions.
(10 marks)
b) With illustration from a text studied in this course, explain how social factors determine the
writers’ choice of language. (10 marks)
c) Using illustration s from literary text analyse five aspects of form. (10 marks)

SECTION B – ANSWER ANY TWO QUESTIONS IN THIS SECTION

QUESTION TWO (20 MARKS)

a) Using five examples, analyse the central role of figures of speech in literary expression.
(10 marks)
b) Explain the effects of five sound patterns in literature with concrete illustrations.
(10 marks)

QUESTION THREE (20 MARKS)

With illustrations from literacy text, analyse the effect of the following aspect of deviation:

a. Ellipsis. (4 marks)
b. Periphrasis. (4 marks)
c. Taboo words. (4 marks)
d. Compounding. (4 marks)
e. Neologism. (4 marks)

QUESTION FOUR (20 MARKS)

The Town Beauty


Magemeso Namungalu
There she lay in a pool blood,
Speared and maimed,
Mute and lifeless’
Base and worthless

There she lay the butchered woman


The butchered woman the daughter of the chief
The daughter of the chief the town beauty
Silenced by the rage of a spear
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She lay in a pool of blood, nude as she was born
Fierce as if hours ago not lovely to touch
Already beginning to steam like fresh during
No one knew she was the daughter of a chief

She lay mid a group of frightened women


Women who were mad with grief
Men that were there fumed with fury
That a beauty should enter the ground so young

There she lay silenced forever


With her beauty crossed
Her eyes forever shut from the world
Soon the ground was to swallow her
a. Analyse the effect of phonological deviation. (4 marks)
b. Comment on the effect of figures of speech. (4 marks)
c. Analyse the subject of poem. (4 marks)
d. Analyse the attitude of the persona in the poem. (4 marks)

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