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, ENG1501
EXAM
PACK
ENG1501 FOUNDATIONS IN LITERARY
STUDIES EXAM PACK (2014 -2022)
OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2014
MEMORANDUM
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, QUESTION 1: Seasons come to pass (Moffett
and Mphahlele, eds.) – Let me not to the
marriage of the true minds (William
Shakespeare)
MODEL ESSAY/ ANSWER
“Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds” to a
traditional form of poems which are known as the
Elizabethan or Shakespearean sonnet. A sonnet is
a fourteen-line lyric poem, traditionally written in
iambic pentameter – that is, in lines ten syllables
long with accents faking on every second syllable.
The Shakespearean sonnet is divided into four
parts. The first three parts are each four lines long
and are known as quatrians, rhymed abab. The
fourth part is called the couplet and is rhymed cc.
The Shakespearean sonnet is often used to
develop a sequence of metaphors or ideas one in
each quatrain, while the couplet offers either
summary or a new take on the preceding images
or ideas. In Shakespearean sonnets, the rhyming
couplet or the line of reasoning has a special
function of wrapping up the argument presented
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, ENG1501
EXAM
PACK
ENG1501 FOUNDATIONS IN LITERARY
STUDIES EXAM PACK (2014 -2022)
OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2014
MEMORANDUM
2|Page
, QUESTION 1: Seasons come to pass (Moffett
and Mphahlele, eds.) – Let me not to the
marriage of the true minds (William
Shakespeare)
MODEL ESSAY/ ANSWER
“Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds” to a
traditional form of poems which are known as the
Elizabethan or Shakespearean sonnet. A sonnet is
a fourteen-line lyric poem, traditionally written in
iambic pentameter – that is, in lines ten syllables
long with accents faking on every second syllable.
The Shakespearean sonnet is divided into four
parts. The first three parts are each four lines long
and are known as quatrians, rhymed abab. The
fourth part is called the couplet and is rhymed cc.
The Shakespearean sonnet is often used to
develop a sequence of metaphors or ideas one in
each quatrain, while the couplet offers either
summary or a new take on the preceding images
or ideas. In Shakespearean sonnets, the rhyming
couplet or the line of reasoning has a special
function of wrapping up the argument presented
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