M.A-M.A English 3rd Year Paper -3.6 : Linguistics and Stylistics - I(University of Pune, Pune-2013)

M.A. (Part - II) (Semester - III)

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Paper -3.6 : Linguistics and Stylistics - I

(2008 Pattern) (Optional)

Time : 3 Hours]                                                                             [Max. Marks :80

Instructions to the candidates:

1) All questions are compulsory.

2) All questions carry equal marks.

Q1) Attempt any ONE of the following:

performance’.

OR

Write a detailed note on the use of ‘repetition’, ‘free repetition’ and

‘parallelism’ in literature.

Q2) Attempt any ONE of the following:

a)       What is ‘foot’? Explain the different types of ‘feet’ with appropriate

examples from English poetry.

b)       What are the different types of sentences in English? How is the typology

significant in the stylistic study of literature?

Q3) Answer any FOUR of the following questions:

 Why are ‘onomatopoeic’ words used in literature?

Explain the significance of ‘pauses’ in literature.

‘Paraphrase is a kind of synonymy at a clause level’. Explain.

Explain the terms ‘hyponym’, ‘co-hyponym’ and ‘superordinate term’

with suitable examples.

Write a brief note on the different types of antonyms.

P.T.O.

Q4) Answer any FOUR of the following questions:

a) Why is ‘absolute synonymy’ not possible’?

b) What is the difference between ‘end rhyme’ and ‘internal rhyme’? Explain

with examples.

c)       What is the stylistic significance of sentence length?

d)       What is ‘onomatopoeia’? Explain with examples.

e)       What is ‘indeterminacy of meaning’ in literature? Explain briefly.

f)        Distinguish between ‘semantic and syntactic entailment’.

Q5) Analyse the linguistic features of the following:

I was born in the city of Bombay ........... once upon a time. No, that

won’t do, there’s no getting away from the date : I was born in Doctor

Naralikar’s Nursing Home on August 15th, 1947. And the time? The

time matters too. Well then: at night. No, it’s important to be more

....... On the stroke of midnight, as a matter of fact. Clock - hands joined

palms in respectful greeting as I came. Oh, spell it out, spell it out: at the precise instant of India’s arrival at independence, I tumbled forth

into the world. There were gasps. And, outside the window, fireworks and crowds. A few seconds later, my father broke his big toe; but his

accident was a mere triffle when set beside what had befallen me in

the benighted moment, because thanks to the occult tyrannies of those

blandly saluting clocks I had been mysteriously hand cuffed to

history, my destinies indissolubly chained to those of my country. For

the next three decades, there was to be no escape. Soothsayers had prophesied me, newspapers celebrated my arrival, politicos ratified

my authenticity. I was left entirely without a say in the matter. I, Saleem Sinai, later variously called Snotnose, Stainface, Baldy,

Sniffer, Buddha and even Piece-of-the-moon, had become heavily

embroiled in Fate – at the best of times a dangerous sort of

involvement. And I couldn’t even wipe my own nose at the time.

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