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CSEC English B Paper 2 May/June 2012 - Free CXC Past Paper with Answers
Free CXC English B Paper 2 May/June 2012 past paper from 2012. Includes a worked answer key. Open the PDF, take a timed test, and study with AI on Caribbean AI.
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Describe TWO of the following sets of minor characters:
[25 marks]
Outline ONE dramatic situation in which the two sets of characters described in (a) above are involved.
[8 marks]
Discuss the dramatic function of ONE set of the characters described in (a) above.
[9 marks]
At the end of the play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Puck says, "... you have but slumbered here/ While these visions did appear". This implies that most of the action in the play is a dream.
[25 marks]
Describe TWO ways in which elements of dream are used in the play.
[8 marks]
Discuss the appropriateness of the title of the play.
[8 marks]
Discuss the dramatic functions of dreams in the play.
[9 marks]
Describe the relationship between Miss Aggy and Len as a boy.
[25 marks]
Discuss how the character of Miss Aggy illustrates the challenges of single parenting.
[8 marks]
Discuss how Rhone's dramatic presentation of Miss Aggy evokes different feelings from the audience.
[9 marks]
The play, Old Story Time, presents opposing views about inner and outer beauty.
[25 marks]
What opposing views about beauty are presented in the play?
[8 marks]
Discuss how Rhone uses characterization to illustrate the opposing views of beauty.
[8 marks]
Through Rhone's presentation of inner and outer beauty, what final impressions does the audience have about the play as a whole?
[9 marks]
'Forgive My Guilt' and 'Epitaph' are poems which present death and memory.
[25 marks]
Describe what happens in EACH poem.
[8 marks]
Discuss how the speaker in EACH poem reacts to the memory of death.
[8 marks]
Discuss ONE device which is used to effectively portray the speaker's reaction to death in EACH poem.
[9 marks]
Sometimes people love a person, a thing, or an event. Choose TWO poems that you have studied that portray love.
For EACH poem:
[25 marks]
Describe who OR what is loved.
[8 marks]
Discuss the effects of this love.
[8 marks]
Discuss ONE device which is used to portray this love.
[9 marks]
The chapters 'A Story with No Name' and 'Travellers, or Fathers, or Little Fool-Fool' explore father – child relationships.
[25 marks]
Describe what is presented about the relationship between Marlene and her father in these two chapters.
[8 marks]
Describe the relationship between Cudjoe Man and his daughter.
[8 marks]
Comment on what is suggested by the way Forbes presents father – child relationships.
[9 marks]
In the chapters 'The Idiot' and 'Morris Hole', Marlene tells of the things that seem strange or very confusing to a growing adolescent.
[25 marks]
Describe what Marlene reveals as strange or confusing in 'The Idiot'.
[8 marks]
Describe what Marlene reveals as strange or confusing in 'Morris Hole'.
[8 marks]
Discuss TWO narrative techniques used by Forbes in these chapters to heighten the adolescent's confusion.
[9 marks]
"They don't care," Bee say, his grief stifling him. "People don't care. Bolo was bigger. He care."
[25 marks]
Describe the relationship between Bolo and Bee.
[8 marks]
Discuss Bee's reasons for believing that Bolo cared for the people.
[8 marks]
Show how Lovelace uses Bolo to develop the story.
[9 marks]
"... the music that those boys playing on the steelband have in it the same spirit that we miss in our church."
[25 marks]
Describe the relationship between the steelband and the church in the novel.
[8 marks]
Explain why Eva believes that the power of the spirit has deserted the church.
[8 marks]
Discuss the significance of religious ritual in the novel.
[9 marks]
In 'The Day the World Almost Came to an End' and 'Mom Luby and the Social Worker' humour is used.
[25 marks]
Describe ONE humorous incident in EACH story.
[8 marks]
Which story do you find more interesting? Justify your response.
[8 marks]
Show how the writer creates humour in the telling of EACH story.
[9 marks]
Select TWO stories in which setting plays a significant part in the development of the storyline.
For EACH story: (a) Describe the setting. (8 marks) (b) Explain the significance of the setting in the development of the story. (8 marks) (c) Discuss ONE other narrative element that is used to develop the story. (9 marks)
[25 marks]