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ENGLISH PAPER 1
FORM 3
END OF TERM 3 – 2022
MARKING SCHEME
1. – It must be an official letter, if not deduct – 2AD
– Two addresses
– Receivers address specified in question
– Date (1 mk)
– Ref (1 mk) (must be relevant)
– Valediction – signature (1/2 mks)
– name (1/2 mk)
– Content must mention the following:
– Kenyan citizen (1 mk)
– Aged between 18 – 25 years (1 mk)
– Creative (1 mk)
– Self-driven (1 mk)
– Able to meet tight deadlines (1 mk)
– Tone-formal (2 mks)
– Language (2 mks)
– Format (4 mks)
2. (i) Previously (ii) with (iii) including (iv) until (v) were
(vi) However (vii) the (iii) times (ix) lumped (x) accorded
3. (a) Oral poem
(i) Rhyme scheme
aabb – It is a regular rhyme scheme
(ii) Mnemonic devices
Assonance – without city’s burstling
- seek, trees
- It helps to create musicality in the poem
Alliteration – quiet, country
Assonance – seek, trees
(iii) Seek, sight, trees, ablaze – because they are content words.
(iv) I would say it with a falling intonation to indicate my final decision to go for a
peaceful country life. The line is declarative statement.
(v) Accept any grammatically correct answer
It makes the poem easy to memorize
(b (i) ship
(ii) pool
(iii) buck
(iv) barn
(c) Stress in words
(i) rebel
(ii) respect
(iii) contact
(iv) access
(d) (i) subtle
(ii) comb
(iii) white
(iv) hymn
(e) Homophones
(i) profit – prophet
(ii) mete – meat
(iii) dough – doe
(iv) key – quay
(f) (i) Tongue twister
(ii) Features:
It is usually short
It is highly repetitive (repetition of a particular sound)
It is non-sensical
