By Elimu Assistant Team 
Read the oral poem below and then answer the questions that follow.
Her lip suckle the nipples
Milk bubbles, foams and ripples
Little hands up in the air
Catch on the mother’s hair
Sweet sensation rises in pressure
Tiny legs kick with pleasure
Sleep whispers softly and long
(Emusara Ossie Enekase)
Questions
i.) Identify any two pairs of rhyming words in the poem. (1mrk)
ii.) Identify one major sound pattern in the poem. (1mrk)
iii.) Give two examples of the above sound pattern. (2mrks)
iv.) How would you perform the poem’s last two lines? (3mrks)
Answers
a) i) -nipples/ripples
-air/hair
-Pressure/pleasure
-strong/long (any 2×1/2)
ii.) Alliteration 1mrk
iii. Sweet sensation (sound /s/)
leep whispers softly
iv. ) I would dramatize 1mrk by lowering 1mrk my tone. I would also say it in a slow pace, to create the onset of the approaching sleep 1mrk.
i.e, Non-verbal (dramatize) (1mrk)
Verbal (pace or tone) (1mrk)
Effect (1mrk)
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