A-LEVEL ENGLISH: PAST QUESTIONS ON PRESCRIBED TEXTS

 

ADVANCED LEVEL ENGLISH LANGUAGE PRESCRIBED TEXTS

PAST QUESTIONS

GCE 2015

1. With reference to any three prescribed texts, show how writers use characters to portray their point of view on societal ills.

2. With reference to any three situations or incidents in at least two prescribed texts, show to what effect the writers use symbolism.

3. in writing works of art, writers start, develop, and in different ways. Show what techniques any two writers use in unfolding the events in the prescribed texts.

4. What makes Bole Butake's Lake God drama and Nkemngong Nkengasong's Across the Mongolo prose?


GCE 2016

1. EXTRACT FROM WALLS OF AGONY

2. Using any free prescribed texts, show how writers use flashback to foster the plot of their story.

3. Language is an important tool for communication. Using any three prescribed texts, show what information is revealed through the use of language.

4. The attitude of leaders towards their subjects determines their success or failure. Using any three prescribed texts, support this assertion.


GCE 2017

1. EXTRACT FROM LAKE GOD

2. "What people say portrays their character." With reference to three prescribed texts, show the validity of this statement.

3. With reference to the prescribed texts, show how the writers' use of setting influences their message.

4. If you were to rewrite any two prescribed texts, what would you add or subtract?


GCE 2018

1. In works of art, writers do not only point to the negative side of life but paint a positive picture of the society. Illustrate this statement using any three prescribed texts.

2. One of the main intentions of writers is to reform their society of its many ills. Use any texts from the prescribed texts to justify this assertion.

3. How is setting important to your understanding of any three prescribed texts?

4. Show how writers use irony to good effect in any three prescribed texts of your choice.


GCE 2019

1. Despite the fact that prescribe texts are written in different places at different times, they address similar concerns. Discuss this assertion using three prescribed texts.

2. In the prescribed texts, most characters are portrayed as victims of circumstances. Use any three prescribed texts to justify this claim.

3. What picture of Africa do you have from your reading of any three prescribed texts?

4. Show how writers use pathos to foster understanding of their works using any three prescribed texts.


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