ENG2614 Assignment
3 (COMPLETE
ANSWERS) 2024
(780527) - Due 17 July
2024 ; 100% TRUSTED
workings,
explanations and
solutions.
, Question 1. Read the prose passage (text 1) and poem (text 2)
supplied below carefully, and answer the questions that follow. Text
1 - Prose The curlews circled down, down, down like revolving
wheels. Crying and calling to their young hiding in the grass, which
peeped softly in return. The stream that passed near the nesting area
splashed and swished as it crawled over the small stones that lined
its bed. A breeze lightly touched the field and the reeds along the
stream bowed and bobbed as if paying their respects. Samantha
watched this scene contemplatively as she sat on the fence at the
bottom of the field slowly swinging her legs. She had come to stay
with her aunt who live in the grim, grey farmhouse which seemed to
squat and frown behind her. At twelve years old, Samantha was slim
with large soulful, sad eyes. Her hair, lion tawny, made her hazel
eyes appear amber. Strands of her hair drifted on the breeze
touching her like cobwebs. She stared at the stream which blinked
and twinkled like sequin, like those on her mother’s frivolous
evening gown. Samantha had been unceremoniously left at her
aunt’s whilst her parents went away on holiday. She could still hear
the ghastly gaiety of her mother’s laugh as the two of them drove
away. Her aunt had always made Samantha uneasy. She had beady,
bright eyes like a magpie, was twig thin, with long taloned hands
with which she, scratch, scratch, scratched at herself. At night
Samantha was convinced it was her aunt’s talons that squealed and
scraped down the bedroom windowpane, a threat which frightened
her. It made sleep difficult. An early riser, Samantha could escape
through the kitchen door and head for the comfort of the field.
Sitting in today’s soft sunlight provided Samantha with a sense of
peace and turning her head she could see the trees on the far end of
the field that lay outside of the fence. These trees were looking at
her, of this Samantha was convinced, like protective parents. ENG
