English BECE 2019 Paper 2 Literature Answer Guide

JUNE 2019
ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Paper 2

PART C
LITERATURE
[10 MARKS]

ANSWER GUIDE

NOTE:
The candidate

• must ensure that there are no grammatical / expression errors, otherwise, he/she may lose
  marks.
• must provide only one answer to any given question. If he/she provides two options and one of
  them is wrong, he/she loses all the marks for that question.
• must ensure that all spellings are correct.
• may decide not to answer in complete sentences

“Stop, thief!” he shouted, thinking Oliver had robbed him. The poor boy found himself heing chased by people and even dogs! Someone in the crowd, a young man with purple lips and red sores all over his hands, grabbed Oliver and knocked him down…” (Page 109)

(a) The one described as a young man with purple lips and red sores all over his hands is ………
Monks OR Edward Leeford OR Oliver’s (half) brother OR Fagin’s friend.

(b) Why did the ‘young man with purple lips and red sores all over his hands’ want to harm Oliver?
He wanted to keep all of their father’s wealth.
OR
So that Oliver would dishonor the family name/ lose his inheritance.

(c) How did Mr. Brownlow help Oliver at the end of the story?
He helped Oliver (to) know who his real parents were/ get his inheritance.
OR
He adopted Oliver.

“Born, say, our young Miss has arrived heavily laden with all the good things of this earth. I should think Dukana will soon float on a sea of wealth”
(Page 178)

(d) Who is referred to as our young Miss?
The writer
OR
the narrator
OR
the protagonist
OR
the main/principal character
OR
the heroine
OR
Mama’s child/ daughter.

(e) The library device used in heavily laden with all the good things of the earth is………

hyperbole
OR
exaggeration

“X: It was a couple of days ago that we met. What came out of the meeting is that we must come and ask you and your wife what is preventing you from giving your grandmother a great-grandchild before she leaves us.”
(Act 4, Page 66)

(f) The speaker represented by ‘X’ in the extract is…….

Petu
OR
Ato’s elder uncle.

(g) According to Ato, what is preventing him and his wife from having children?
Nothing

(h) The figure of speech that describes she leaves us in the extract is……….
Euphemism

“Head bent, rags all around the upside-down pan
Picking her nose, shuffling her feet, oblivious to the bustle”
(Page 158)

(i) Write one group of words in the extract that brings out the theme of uncleanliness.
rags all around
OR
upside-down pan
OR
picking her nose’

(j) The words Head bent, rags all around the upside-down pan appeal to the reader’s sense of…….
Sight

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