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Section D
[20 marks]
32 Read the following poem from the poem The Living Photograph and answer questions that
follow.
The Living Photograph
My small grandmother is tall there,
Straight back, white, broderie anglaise shirt,
pleated skirt, flat shoes, grey bun,
a kind, old smile round her eyes.
Her big hand holds mine,
white hand in the black hand.
Her sharp blue eyes look her own death in the eye.
It was true, after all, that look.
My tall grandmother became small.
Her back round and hunched.
Her soup forgot to boil.
She went to the awful place grandmothers go.
Somewhere unknown, unthinkable
But there she is still,
In the photo with me at three,
The crinkled smile is still living, breathing.
By: Jackie Kay

a. In the poem, how are the people in the photograph related? [1 mark]
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b. How old was the persona when the photograph was taken? [1 mark]
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c. What does the phrase the awful place refer to?
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d. From the last two lines in Stanza 2, what it tells us about the grandmother? [1 mark]
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e. What happened when the grandmother grows older? [1 mark]
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33 The following is the short story studied in the literature component in Engling Language
Tanjung Rhu Minfong Ho
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Based on the short story, write about the character that you admire and why you like the
character. Give evidence from the short story to support your answer.
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