Breast Feeding: KCSE English Poetry Questions and Answers

Poetry Questions and Answers

Read the oral poem below and then answer the questions that follow.

Her lip suckle the nipples

Milk bubbles, foams and ripples

Little hands up in the air

Catch on the mother’s hair

Sweet sensation rises in pressure

Tiny legs kick with pleasure

Sleep whispers softly and long

(Emusara Ossie Enekase)

Questions

i.) Identity any two pairs of rhyming words in the poem. (1mrk)

ii.) Identify one major sound pattern in the poem. (1mrk)

iii.) Give two examples of the above sound pattern. (2mrks)

iv.) How would you perform the last two lines of the poem? (3mrks)

Answer

a) i) -nipples/ripples
        -air/hair
        -Pressure/pleasure
        -strong/long (any 2×1/2)
ii.) Alliteration 1mrk
iii. Sweet sensation (sound /s/)
      leep whispers softly
iv. ) I would dramatize 1mrk by lowering 1mrk my tone. I would also say it in a slow pace, to create the onset of the approaching sleep 1mrk.
             i.e, Non-verbal (dramatize) (1mrk)
                   Verbal  (pace or tone) (1mrk)
                    Effect (1mrk)

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