CAPE Literatures in English Unit 2 · 2005 · Paper 2

6 questions and parts from this paper. Open one to see it in full, then practise it on Quelpr and get it marked against the mark scheme.

1. 160 marksWith reference to ONE Shakespearean tragedy or romance and ONE Caribbean play, discuss the ways playwrights from different historical contexts explore similar issues.
2. 260 marksWith reference to ONE Shakespearean tragedy or romance and ONE Caribbean play, discuss how playwrights employ the device of either disguise or ritual.
3. 360 marksEvaluate the claim that interpretation is always shaped by the reader's knowledge of the context from which a poet writes, referring to the work of ONE Caribbean poet and ONE Modern American or African American poet.
4. 460 marksWith reference to THREE poems by a single Caribbean poet, demonstrate the extent to which sound is central to poetic meaning.
5. 560 marksAssess the view that prose works are carefully structured texts, with reference to TWO works of British, American, or Postcolonial fiction.
6. 660 marksDiscuss the validity of the statement that narrative details in prose fiction attain rich, symbolic intensity, with reference to any ONE work of British, American, or Postcolonial prose fiction.