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?

Which revision of this sentence best uses direct characterization?

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

How does the mother defend her child to the old duck