ALTERNATIVE ANSWERS AND MARKING SCHEME INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE MID‐TEST 2010/2011 NO. A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 C 1 ANSWER VARIATIONS / KEY WORDS Facts Literature is a mimesis (imitation/representation) What distinguishes poetry from other types of arts is the medium Plato did Theory that holds the view that literature is “an expression of the author’s feelings and emotion” is Expressive Theory William Wordsworth did Pragmatic theory does Literature is an autonomous object Literature is a self‐surpassing entity Pleasurable (exciting, entertaining) and useful (beneficial) Inferences To match the rhythm and rhyme of the ballad to be sung He was killed (murdered, slain, slaughtered) Downe there comes a fallow doe, As great with yong as she might goe. She lifted up his bloudy hed, And kist his wounds that were so red. She got him up upon her backe, And carried him to earthen lake. She buried him before the prime,. She was dead herselfe ere even‐song time. God send every gentlemen Such hawks, and hounds, and such a leman A soldier At the battle field Because he viewed him as his enemy Because they met at war (not the right place to meet) They would talk, drink, and help each other They would become friends Analysis │Ăs fáir │ ărt thóu,│ my bón│nĭe láss, │Sŏ deép│ ĭn lúve│ ăm Í, │Ănd Í │will lúve│ theěe still, │ my deár, │Tĭll á’ │the seás │găng dry. │ SUB‐
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nce I gave myself to him and took him as an exchange. By this procedure, our relationship (marriage) was accepted (legalized). However, he might not be pleased after the marriage because I was not as good as he had expected. 1 1 1 1 In Ballad of Birmingham there are two speakers (a mother and her daughter) and one narrator, but in Is My Team Ploughing, there are only two speakers (the dead speaker and the living speaker) without a narrator. In Ballad of Birmingham the stanzas represent a dialogue (between a mother and her daughter) and a narration, but in Is My Team Ploughing, there is only a dialogue (between the dead speaker and the living speaker) without any narration. Image is anything that appeals to the senses (of sight, of hearing, of smell, of touch, and of taste). Examples of images in Browning’s Meeting at Night: The gray sea, the long black land, the yellow half moon, startled little waves, cove, prow, warm sea‐scented beach, farm, tap at the pane, blue spurt of a lighted match, voice less loud, two hearts Symbol is something that stands for (means) something else. Examples of symbols in Frost’s The Road Not Taken: The road as a symbol of a choice or decision, the wood as symbol of life, yellow (referring to autumn) as a symbol of limited time left, and a sigh as a symbol of grief/repentance Position Essay: PRO CONTRA The living speaker is a good friend. The living speaker is NOT a good friend. 4 1 1 1 1 16
2 He married his dead friend’s wife 1. He hurt his dead friend’s heart 6 because he wanted to free her by saying “your girl is well from grief and to make her contented,” implying that his happy. He told him to rest in girl was no longer sad for him peace and not to be sad by and that she had even assuring him, “your girl is well‐
forgotten him. contented.” 2. He married his dead friend’s wife without asking his 2. He did not tell his dead friend the permission and he did not even whole story because he did not let him know: “never ask me want hurt him, “never ask me whose.” whose.” 3. He visited his dead friend in the 3. He looked down on his dead grave yard because he wanted to friend by saying ““No change show that their friendship was though you lie under the land long‐lasting, and that their you used to plough,” implying 1.
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that the death of his friend was not important and did not affect anybody, including his former sweetheart. friendship did not stop although he had died, “No change though you lie under the land you used to plough.” TOTAL 8
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