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(b) Recite the following poem and
answer the questions that follow. Questions

1. Suggest the mood and tone of
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THE DYING CHILD the persona.
2. Describe the mental picture you
Thin and red, have created from these verses:
Skinny and bald, “Fights with flies//Over the
The boy groans on the ground. empty plate”.
Swollen stomach 3. What do the words “pen” and
Full of waste, “gun” represent?
Thin legs, 4. Why do you think the boy
Thin arms, wishes to carry a gun?
Twitch 5. Why does the mother tell a boy
As the boy he will never live to carry a
Fights with flies gun?
Over the empty plate. 6. What does the term “meat”
represent in the poem?
Ten years old, 7. Fill the following table with
He looks older than ten, literary devices used in this
And younger than young, poem, their textual evidence
And so small and the possible meanings they
As he wriggles, convey:
Prisoner
Of his unproportioned body. No. Literary Example Meaning
“Mother,” shouts the boy, device (s) from conveyed
“when I grow up text
I will carry a gun
And not a pen.”
“My son,” shouts the mother,
“My son,” cries the mother
“You will never live to carry a gun
There is no meat for us.”

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Freeman Peter Lwamba

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