LITERATURE IN SOCIETY - Feedback Tutorial Letter Semester 2 - Assignment 10, 11

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Feedback tutorial letter for Semester 2 under the Department of African Languages, covering ENGLISH: Assignment 10 and ISIXHOSA: Assignment 11. Assignment 10 requires responses on the purpose of folktales for children, the value of riddles, writing and structuring a short story, analysing negative depictions of female characters in a prescribed drama book/novel, and answering poetry theory questions on theme, narrative poem structure, stanza types, repetition, parallelism, chiasmus, and related examples. It also includes tasks comparing animal characters and types of picture books, supported with examples. Assignment 11 focuses on whether folktales are prepared for children and the importance of three traditional charms.

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ENGLISH: ASSIGNMENT 10

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Question 2

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Question 4

ISIXHOSA: ASSIGNMENT 11

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Tutorial Letter AFL2603/201/2/2015 LITERATURE IN SOCIETY: A Perspective on African Language Feedback tutorial letter Semester 2 Department of African Languages IMPORTANT INFORMATION: This tutorial letter contains important information about this module ENGLISH: ASSIGNMENT 10 Question 1 (a) Folktales are meant for children only. The adult female/grandmother is the one who will narrate the story to the young ones. Folk tales are educational as they teach morals to children. They encourage the children to listen carefully. They also teach the narrating and singing skills. Children learn to gather new vocabulary and learn about their environment. (Any other answer that is relevant will be accepted) . (6) (b) Value of riddles : children’s vocabulary increase through playing riddling games They learn about their environment. They learn to think quickly and accurately. They learn to listen attentively. They also learn to pronounce and speak their language properly especially in long riddles as they present their answers. Students need to write 3 riddles in their African languages. (3) (c) Short story: The title/topic has to be attractive. The theme to be compressed and all activities and events to take place within a specified time. Structure: introduction has to have the main character and the problem he/she is faced with. In the introduction the place should be indicated. The body should deal with only one event/activity. The conclusion should be short and should have an element of the twist in the tail. (Students should use a known short story that is prescribed in their own language. ) (25) Question 2 The student should choose a drama book/ novel and indicate the way female characters are depicted (in a negative manner) . The drama/novel should be the ones that are prescribed and recommended) . The students who will receive high marks, is the one who has supported her/his arguments correctly. For instance in Mbala Ngubaba: PBSkhosana, NaMtshweni is depicted as an ignorant woman who did not even know that her husband had a will. She is always submissive and she agrees to whatever is said by the law. The wife to Mavela, does not have a say, she complies at all times. They relocated from Soshanguve to their in-laws’ place, her husband told her that he got anew job and he is leaving, she never questioned him as to where and when will he be back. (25) Question 3 Theme is regarded as the subject matter under discussion and is the main idea conveyed by the poet. The theme in poetry may be on any subject of any kind, and any human experience, love, death, birth, disease , etc. (5) (a) A narrative poem has a beginning, middle, a climax and a conclusion. One typeof a narrative is the epic. (2) a lyric does not tell a story, but expresses deep personal emotions and takes different forms. (2) (b) Four types of stanzas. Poetry is written in lines. Couplet or two lines; three lines or triplet, four lines or quatrain, five lines or quintain, six lines or sestet, eight lines or octet and a sonnet of fourteen lines. (8) (c) Repetition occurs when whole words or parts of words are repeated in a poem. Repetition gives the outward structure of a poem a certain pattern, but also creates a very pleasing variation and rhythm. Repetition draws the reader’s attention to certain words and images. Repetition reinforces the meaning. In parallelism similar or contracting ideas are paralleled by using similar words or constructions in successive lines. Cross parallelism or chiasmus, partial repetition and antithetical parallelism. (Students have to give examples. ) (8) (25) Question 4 (a) Children associate themselves with animal characters because they are wise/ intelligent or fast. A hare or trickster is witty; he/she deceived an old lady. They played a dangerous game. The old lady died. A lion is powerful. It is the king of the jungle. A bee is also intelligent. It comes with its tricks when oth

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What are the requirements for Assignment 10 Question 1(a) on folktales?

Explain whether folktales are meant only for children, who narrates them, and how they educate children (e.g., morals, listening carefully, narration and singing skills). Relevant alternative answers are accepted.

How should students write the short story in Assignment 10 Question 1(c)?

Choose an attractive title/topic, compress the theme, and place all events within a specified time. Include a clear introduction with the main character and problem, a body covering one event/activity, and a short conclusion with a twist in the tail.

What aspects of poetry are covered in Assignment 10 Question 3?

Theme in poetry, the structure of narrative poems (beginning, middle, climax, conclusion) and types like epics, differences from lyric poetry, stanza types, and devices such as repetition and parallelism/chiasmus, including the need to give examples.

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