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A. Read the extracts and answer the following questions: (8 mark) 1. “Don’t be afraid, Mother, I am here.”.
Questions: (2 marks)
a) Why does the speaker ask his mother not to be afraid?
b) What does the speaker’s mother do to stop him?
2. “The sun in the heavens was beaming,
The breeze bore an odour of hay,
My flannels were spotless and gleaming
My heart was unclouded and gay;”
Questions: (2 marks)
a) What was the mood of the speaker?
b) Identify the alliteration in the above lines?
3. “And o’er the farms, “O chanticleer,
Your clarion blow; the day is near.”
It whispered to the fields of corn,
“Bow down, and hail the coming morn.”
Questions: (4 marks)
a) Which poem do these lines occur?
b) What is compared to the clarion blow and what is the name of the figure
of speech?
c) Who is whispering to the fields of corn?

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