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Due 17 July
2024
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ENG2614 Assignment 3 (COMPLETE ANSWERS) 2024
( - Due 17 July 2024
Course
Applied English Literature for Intermediate Phase (ENG2614)
Institution
University Of South Africa (Unisa)
Book
Literature for English Intermediate Two, Student Text
ENG2614 Assignment 3 (COMPLETE ANSWERS) 2024 ) - 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,
