ENG1517 ASSIGNMENT 3 2024

ENG1517
ASSIGNMENT 3 2024
UNIT 5: Poetry, rhymes and songs; and Unit 6: Promoting a reading culture

N.B PARAPHRASE YOUR WORK TO AVOID PLAGARISM (CHANGE WORDS)




Question 1

Read the following short poem and answer the questions that follow.



THE MOON

, By Robert Louis Stevenson

The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;

She shines on thieves on the garden wall,

On streets and field and harbour quays*,

And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees.



The squalling cat and the squeaking mouse,

The howling dog by the door of the house,

The bat that lies in bed at noon,

All love to be out by the light of the moon.



But all of the things that belong to the day

Cuddle to sleep to be out of her way; And

flowers and children close their eyes

Till up in the morning the sun shall arise.


(Stevenson, R.L. 2008. ‘The Moon’, in A Child’s Garden of Verses. Project Gutenberg

Edition. Available: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25609. Accessed on: 2 June
2023).



Glossary:

quays (pronunciation: kees): plural of ‘quay’, a stone or metal platform lying alongside or

projecting into water for loading and unloading ships (Oxford Languages).