Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow. It’s only white skins and masks Flashing past and slashing, Destroying my sight so I can’t get what I want I cry and sing to them The inbred tune of our people I shouted to them in the black tongue But no black sister hears me: Only white masks I see. I turn and weep upon myself And then, only then I realise: I am not black either.

1. Tone and mood (0 mk)
2. Briefly explain two possible themes found in this poem. (4 mk)
3. Provide four examples of artistic devices used in the poem. (4 mk)
4. Quatrain and couplet (0 mk)
5. What is the tone of the poem? Give a reason for your answer. (2 mk)
6. Octave and sestet (0 mk)
7. Consonance and assonance (0 mk)
8. What message do you get from the poem? (2 mk)
9. How is the poem relevant to your contemporary society? (2 mk)
10. Alliteration and anadiplosis (0 mk)

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Read the given poem and respond to the subsequent questions that follow: Lost Beauty: By Jwani Mwaikusa There are only white women around: Awful fakes of white females Reflecting an awful mass of ugliness: And I want a lady To mount the rostrum with And declare to the world: Black is beautiful Yes, I want a black beauty queen With ebony thighs and huge hips With skin sweating blackness And a face dark as the night And bare breasts bouncing Vigour and energy. But my eyes, oh my eyes! They don’t see anything black: It’s only white skins and masks Flashing past and slashing, Destroying my sight so I can’t get what I want I cry and sing to them The inbred tune of our people I shouted to them in the black tongue But no black sister hears me: Only white masks I see. I turn and weep upon myself And then, only then I realise: I am not black either.

1. Briefly explain two possible themes found in this poem. (0 mk)
2. Provide four examples of artistic devices used in the poem. (0 mk)
3. What is the tone of the poem? Give a reason for your answer. (0 mk)
4. What message do you get from the poem? (0 mk)
5. How is the poem relevant to your contemporary society? (0 mk)

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