University of Pune 2010 M.A English - Question Paper

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[3702] - 327 M.A. (Part - II ) ENGLISH

Pragmatics - I (Paper : 3.7) (Sem. - III)

Time :3 Hours]

Instructions to the candidates:

1)    All questions are compulsory.

2)    Figures to the right indicate full marks.

Q1) Answer any two of the following :

a)    Comment on Levinsons view of pragmatics as the study of relations between language and context.......

b)    What are the contributions of Chomsky, Austin, Searle and Grice in the development of pragmatics?

c)    Differentiate between componential and perspective view of language.

Q2) Answer any two of the following :    [16]

a)    Explain how context influences conversation and its interpretation.

b)    What is the significance of social and physical context in the interpretation of an utterance?

c)    What is linguistic context? Comment on its limitation in the interpretation of an utterance.?

Q3) Answer any two of the following :    [16]

a)    How does Searle classify speech acts? Give Illustrations.

b)    Explain the felicity conditions that go in the making of a successful speech act.

c)    Distinguish between locutionary and illocutionary speech acts. Give illustrations.

a)    Deictic expressions are called indexical expressions. Comment.

b)    What are the major types of deixis? Explain with examples.

c)    Explain and illustrate the concept deictic centre.

Q5) Answer any four of the following :    [16]

a)    Give the sentence meaning and utterance meaning of the following :

i)    War is war.

ii)    A: May I come in sir?

B: You are too late for this class.

iii)    Leaf is laid.

iv)    John repaired the bicycle with a screw-driver.

b)    Identify the physical and social contexts in the following passage and comment on their importance in understanding the text.

Bostons dull and its flat, my cook said.

So is Punjab. I said.

He looked at me from the kitchen while preparing lassi for me and uncle.

c)    Say whether the following utterances are instances of direct or indirect speech act.

i)    I hope you are not going too far.

ii)    Comment on the following.

iii)    Why dont you take rest?

iv)    Im hungry.

d)    Give an example each for the following speech acts.

Assertive, directive, expressive, declarative.

e)    Explain the illocutionary force in the following utterances.

i)    The house is on fire.

ii)    You are getting wet in the rain.

iii)    A: Can you bring me a glass of water?

B: Wait a minute.

iv) A: The Librarian is waiting for you.

B: I have a lecture to attend.

f) Identify various deictic expressions used in the following passage and explain.

Yesterday policemen arrived with their umbrellas in the hall and waited there. On his knees, the cook searched for the silver knob of the watch, but it had vanished. They approached him and asked him a hoard of questions.

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2)    How does The Inheritance of Loss portray the interaction of the West and East?

3)    The Inheritance of Loss deals with the issue of globalization as a force in determining ones identity. Discuss.

Q5) Attempt any two of the following :    [16]

1)    Jasmine and the Inheritance of Loss deal with the issue of assimilation with the new culture in a unique manner. Discuss.

2)    Write a note on the sense of displacement in Jasmine and The Inheritance of Loss.

3)    Jasmine and The Inheritance of Loss deal with the trauma of immigrant psyche. Discuss.

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[3702] - 328 M.A. ENGLISH (Part - II)

Paper - 3.8 : Multicultural Discourse in Immigrant Fiction (I)

(Sem. - III)

Time :3 Hours]    [Max. Marks: 80

Instructions to the candidates:

1)    All questions are compulsory.

2)    All questions carry equal marks.

Q1) Attempt any two of the following :    [16]

1)    Write a note on alternative identities in diasporic literature.

2)    Eurocentric dominance is one of the major themes in immigrant fiction.Discuss.

3)    Discuss the issue of marginality in immigrant fiction.

Q2) Attempt any two of the following :    [16]

1)    Write a note on different types of discourse.

2)    Literary discourse brings out power relationships in society. Discuss.

3)    What do you understand by the term intercultural discourse?

Q3) Attempt any two of the following :    [16]

1)    Comment on the fragmented self of Devinder Vadhera.

2)    Interpret Jasmines character as a representative of cross-cultural metamorphosis.

3)    Comment on feminist rebelliousness in Jasmine.

Q4) Attempt any two of the following :    [16]

1) Discuss The Inheritance of Loss as a novel of exile,frustration and displacement.

a)    Explain the difference between a footnote and an endnote in terms of their position in a thesis. Do you think that they are convenient ways of citing sources? Why?

b)    Discuss how you will compile a working Bibliography for your research. What are the uses of a working Bibliography?

c)    What is a short research paper? How will you distinguish it from a thesis?

Q5) Answer any four of the following :    [16]

a)    Imagine that you are doing research on a topic in English Language Teaching. You need to collect the responses of some teachers concerning the importance of the topic. Prepare a sample questionnaire for them.

b)    List some sample generalizations that you would like to make on a topic you have researched.

c)    Write a sample introduction for a research paper you wish to write.

d)    Prepare a sample Table of Contents for an imaginary thesis of your choice.

e)    List any three bibliographical references in accordance with the format given in the MLA style sheet. (The list should contain a single author reference, reference to an edited work and a journal article.)

f)    List three endnotes with references.

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[3702] - 421 M.A. (Part - II)

ENGLISH Paper - 4.1 : Doing Research (II)

(Sem. -IV)

Time :3 Hours]    [Max. Marks: 80

Instructions to the candidates:

1)    All questions are compulsory.

2)    All questions carry equal marks.

Q1) Answer any two of the following :    [16]

a)    Describe the importance of collecting data in research. Illustrate your answer with examples.

b)    Reading to understand, respond and forge relationships is a fundamental principle in data analysis. Explain the statement choosing appropriate examples from literary research.

c)    When can a researcher plan the chapter wise design of her/his thesis? What are the points the researcher has to keep in mind while designing chapters?

Q2) Answer any two of the following :    [16]

a)    Describe the major parts of a thesis.

b)    What are the characteristic features of a logically written thesis? Illustrate your answer with examples.

c)    Describe the function of Introduction in a thesis.

Q3) Answer any two of the following :    [16]

a)    Explain the value of the findings in a thesis. How should they be presented to the leaders?

b)    To plagiarize is to give the impression that you have written or thought something that you have in fact borrowed from somewhere else. Comment on the statement.

c)    What is the importance of quotations in research? How can we avoid overquoting and underquoting?

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M.A. (Part -1)

ENGLISH Contemporary Critical Theory (Paper - IV) (Old Course) (85 Pattern)

Time: 3 Hours]    [Max. Marks: 60

Instructions to the candidates:

1)    All questions are compulsory.

2)    Figures to the right indicate full marks.

Q1 Write short notes on any Two of the following in not more than 400 words each :    [9]

a)    Aristotles concept of imitation.

b)    Defects of Shakespeares plays as reflected in Johnsons essay.

c)    Four kinds of meaning given by Richards.

d)    Wordsworths definition of poetry.

e)    Eliots conception of tradition.

Q2) Answer any Two of the following in not more than 400 words each : [9]

a)    Explain Eliots statement that emotion of art is impersonal.

b)    Define after Allen Tate the concept of tension in poetry.

c)    Write a brief note on Brooks comment on the paradox in the poems of Wordsworth.

d)    How does Leavis distinguish between literary criticism and philosophy?

Q3) a) Answer any One of the following in not more than 800 words : [14]

i)    What psycho-analytical solution does Ernest Jones provide to Hamlets problems?

ii)    How does Luka'cs attack on Modernism in Ideology of Modernism.

b) Answer any Two of the following in not more than 400 words each. [14]

i)    Write a note on Edward Saids views on the dominance of the West as expressed in from culture and Imperialism.

ii)    Comment on Abrams views on the linguistic premises of Derrida.

iii)    Bring out Cullers views on the relationship between structuralism and literature.

iv)    Explain Saussures view that language is an organized thought coupled with sound.

Q4) a) Answer any One of the following in not more than 800 words. [14]

i)    An Archetype is a kind of literary anthropology concerned with the way literature is informed by pre-literary categories such as ritual, myth and folk-lore. Comment.

ii)    Discuss the salient features of Marxist criticism with reference to Lukacs Ideology of Modernism.

OR

b) Answer any Two of the following in not more than 400 words each. [14]

i)    Discuss after Showalter the two modes of feminist criticism.

ii)    Explain Saussures concepts of sign, signifier and signified.

iii)    Comment on Barthes views on the elimination of the author.

iv)    Write a note on Abrams views on the linguistic premises of Hills Miller.

Q5) Answer any One of the following in about 800 words :    [14]

a)    Bring out the similarities and differences between the views of Saussure

and Barthes on the meaning of a text.

b)    Deconstruction is both an extension of and a reaction to structuralism.

Explain with reference to the texts you have studied.

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M.A. (Part - II)

ENGLISH

ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE TEACHING

(Paper - V) (Old Course)

Time: 3 Hours]    [Max. Marks: 60

Instructions to the candidates:

1)    All questions are compulsory.

2)    Figures to the right indicate full marks.

QIA Explain the difference in the terms Curriculum and Syllabus.    [9]

OR

What is Behaviourist Theory? What was Chomskys argument against it?

Q2) Write short notes on ANY TWO of the following :    [9]

a)    Reference Skills.

b)    Techniques of teaching speaking skills.

c)    Uses of visual aids in a literature class.

d)    Explicit and implicit ways of teaching grammar.

Q3) a) What is the contribution of Micro Teaching in the training of the student-teacher?    [14]

OR

b) Write short notes on ANY TWO of the following :

i)    The short comings of Peer Teaching.

ii)    Test Types.

iii)    The advantages of computer assisted language learning.

iv)    Functions of Remediation.

Q4) Answer ANY TWO of the following in not more than 300 words. [14]

a) In what way can Needs Analysis help a language teacher? Illustrate your answer.

b)    Explain with the help of examples the relationship between language teaching and literature teaching.

c)    Describe with suitable examples the techniques used in communicative language teaching.

d)    What are the underlying principles of contrastive analysis? Illustrate your answer with suitable examples.

Q5) a) Prepare a lesson plan or a period plan to teach ANY ONE of the following to an undergraduate class.    [14]

i)    A ballad.

ii)    Tag questions.

iii)    A short story of your choice.

iv)    The climax in any play of your choice.

OR

b) Assume that the following passage appears in the textbook prescribed for F.Y. B.A. Read the passage and attempt the tasks given below it :

On Friday 30 January 1948, Gandhi woke up at his usual hour, 3.30 a.m. After the morning prayer he put the final touches to the new constitution for Congress which he had been unable to finish the previous night. The rest of the morning was spent answering letters. Someone mentioned the fact that despite his poor health he was working incessantly. Tomorrow, he explained. 'I may not be here. He was aware of the strengthening of the police guard around the Birla House, but notwithstanding Home Minister Patels earnest request, Gandhi would not permit the police to prevent those who attended the prayer meetings: 'if I have to die I should like to die at the prayer meeting. You are wrong in believing that you can protect me from harm. God is my protector. Gandhi had been busy since the early morning. It was now nearly four o clock in the afternoon, and soon there would be a meeting with Patel.

Gandhi had earlier been drawn into the ideological differences and rivalry between Patel and Nehru, and had expressed the view that one of the two should withdraw from the cabinet. He had since come to the conclusion that both were indispensable, pointing out that the government would be seriously weakened if it lost either. Earlier in the day someone

had shown him a clipping from the London Times, an article suggesting that the conflict between Nehru and Patel was irreconcilable. He was determined to put an end to the disunity between them, even if it meant delaying his journey to Sevagram.

i)    Prepare two local comprehension questions on the passage.

ii)    Choose one grammar item from the passage and explain how you will teach it.

iii)    Explain how you will use the passage for teaching intensive reading.

iv)    Choose any two items of vocabulary and explain how you will teach them in the class.

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M.A. (Part - II)

ENGLISH Indian Writing in English (Paper - VI) (Old Course)

Time: 3 Hours]    [Max. Marks: 60

Instructions to the candidates:

1)    All questions are compulsory.

2)    Figures to the right indicate full marks.

Q1 Answer any TWO of the following in about 400 words each.    [9]

a)    Comment on the contrast in the character portrayal of Sir Mohan Lal and Lady Mohan Lal.

b)    Discuss how The Man with a Clear Conscience is a story of selfappraisal.

c)    Show how the titles of three sections of the novel Azadi are symbolic.

d)    Inside the Haveli is a modern classic about an independent young womans struggle to hold on to her identity in a traditional world. Evaluate.

e)    Show how A.K. Ramanujan handles a serious subject in light-hearted manner in the poem Obituary.

Q2) Write short notes on any TWO of the following.    [9]

a)    Female dominance in Inside the Haveli.

b)    Significance ofArun-Nurul affair.

c)    Repetitive style in The Insurance Agent.

d)    Significance of the images used by Jayanta Mahapatra in his poems.

Q3) a) Answer any ONE of the following in about 800 words :    [14]

i)    Explain how the dualism of the man and the hero in Tughlaq is the source of entire tragedy.

ii)    Evaluate Wings of Fire as an autobiography.

OR

Write short notes on any TWO of the following.

i)    Kamala Das as a confessional poet.

ii)    Theme of escapism in Luminol and The Suicide.

iii)    Come Rain as a story of an outsider becoming an insider.

iv)    Significance of flashback technique in Inside the Haveli.

Answer any ONE of the following in about 800 words.    [14]

i)    Would it be appropriate to say that Kamala Das is preoccupied with the theme of despair? Illustrate.

ii)    Discuss how Kalams autobiography is worth many management lessons.

OR

Write short notes on any TWO of the following.

i)    The role of Mr. and Mrs. Gogte.

ii)    Significance of the title Come Rain.

iii)    Ironical element in Tughlaq.

iv)    Significance of the roles of Aziz and Azam.

Q5) Answer any ONE of the following in about 800 words :    [14]

a)    Discuss how family relationship is major thematic concern of Indian poetry with a note of alienation and loneliness. Explain with suitable examples from the poetry you have studied.

b)    Compare and contrast Rama Mehta and Jai Nimbkar as promising Indian feminist novelists.

[3702]-121 M.A. (Part -1)

ENGLISH English Literature from 1550 to 1832 (Paper - 1.1) (Sem. - I)

[Max. Marks: 80

Instructions to the candidates:

1)    All questions are compulsory.

2)    All questions carry equal marks.

QI) Explain any four with reference to the context in the light of some of the following points :

a)    Significance of the extract.

b)    Imagery/Symbolism.

c)    Allusions.

d)    Diction/Style.

e)    Literary Background.

i)    As twixt two equall Armies, Fate Suspends uncertaine victorie,

Our soules, (which to advance their state,

Were gone out,) hung, twixt her, and mee.

And whil'st our soules negotiate there,

Wee like sepulchrall statues lay;

All day, the same our postures were,

And we said nothing, all the day.

ii)    Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, Kings and desperate men, And dost with poison, warre, and sicknesse dwell,

And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,

And better than thy stroke, why swell'st thou then?

One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,

And death shall be no more, heath thou shalt die.

iii)    And let the ground whereas her foot shall tread,

For Feare the stones her tender foot should wrong Be strewed with fragrant flowers all along,

And diapred lyke the discolored mead.

Which done, doe at her chamber dore awayt,

For she will waken strayt,

The whiles doe ye this song unto her sing,

The woods shall to you answer and your Eccho ring.

iv)    When I consider how my light is spent,

Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,

And that one talent which is death to hide,

Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent, To serve there with my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide:

Doth God exact day-labour, light denyd?

v)    He asked the waves and asked the Felon winds,

What hard mishap hath doomed this gentle swain? And questioned every gust of rugged wings That blows from off each beaked promontory.

They knew not of his story;

And sage Hippotades their answer brings,

That not a blast was from his dungeon strayed;

The air was calm, and on the level brine Sleek Parope with all her sisters played.

It was that fatal and perfidious bark,

Built in the eclipse and rigged with curses dark,

That sunk so low that sacred head of thine.

vi)    And ye high heavens, the temple of the gods,

In which a thousand torches flaming bright Doe burne, that to Vs Wretched earthly clods.

In dreadful darknese lend desired light;

And all ye powers which in the same remayne,

More than we men can fayne,

Pouse out your blessing on us pletiously,

And happy influence upon us raine,

That we may raise a large posterity.

Q2) Write short notes on any two of the following in not more than 400 words each :

a)    Lycidas as a pastoral elegy.

b)    Goe and Catche a Falling Starre as a dramatic monologue.

c)    Pictorial qualities in Epithalamion.

d)    Auto biographical element in On His Blindness.

Q3) Attempt any one of the following in about 800 words :

a)    Describe the element of conflict in Othello.

b)    Evaluate Othello as a Shakespearean hero.

Q4) Attempt any one of the following in about 800 words.

a)    The Vicar of Wakefield is a fictitious memoir. Discuss.

b)    Comment on the characterization in The Vicar of Wakefield.

Q5) a) Write short notes on any one the following in not more than 400 words each :

i)    Tragic death of Desdemona.

ii)    The themes of jealousy and revenge in Othello.

b) Write short notes on any one of the following in not more than 400 words each :

i)    Sentimental note in The Vicar of Wakefield.

ii)    Sophia as a devoted daughter.

[3702]-122 M.A. (Part -1)

ENGLISH English Literature from 1832 to 1980 (Paper - 1.2) (Sem. - I)

[Max. Marks: 80

Instructions to the candidates:

1)    All questions are compulsory.

2)    All questions carry equal marks.

QI) Explain any four with reference to context in the light of some of the following points :

a)    Significance of the extract.

b)    Imagery/Symbolism.

c)    Allusions.

d)    Diction/Style.

e)    Literary Background.

i)    How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With half-shut eyes ever to seem

Falling asleep in a half-dream !

To dream and dream, lie yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush⁷ on the height; To hear each others whisper'd speech;

Eating the Lotos day by day,

To watch the crisping ripples on the beach,

And tender curving⁹ lines of creamy spray;

ii)    A sudden blow; the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,

He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.

iii)    Death closes all: but something ere the end,

Some work of noble note, may yet be done,

Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.

The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:

The long day waves: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans sound with many voices. Come, my friends,

'T is not too late to seek a newer world.

iv)    Thats my last Duchess painted on the wall,

Looking as if she were alive. I call

That piece a wonder, now:Fra Pandolfs hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands.

Will't please you sit and look at her? I said.

v)    It was roses, roses, all the way,

With myrtle mixed in my path like mad:

The house-roofs seemed flamed, such flags they had,

A year ago on this very day.

vi)    The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle;

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Q2) Write short notes on any two of the following in not more than 400 words each :

a)    The significance of the title of the poem My Last Duchess.

b)    Porphyrias Lover as a dramatic monologue.

c)    The note of optimism in The Patriot.

d)    Thirst for knowledge as the central theme of Ulysses.

Q3) Attempt any one of the following in not more than 800 words :

a)    Consider Pygmalion as a drama of ideas.

b)    Write a detailed note on the changes in Eliza Doolittle in the course of the

p^lay.

Q4) Attempt any one of the following in not more than 800 words :

a)    Show how A passage to India deals with the theme of personal relationships.

b)    Consider A Passage to India as a pessimistic and defeatist novel.

Q5) a) Write short notes on any one of the following in not more than 400 words each :

i)    Significance of the opening scene of Pygmalion.

ii)    The role of Alfred Doolittle in Pygmalion.

b) Write short notes on any one of the following in not more than 400 words each :

i)    A character-sketch of Mrs Moore.

ii)    A Passage to India as a masterly study of racial antagonism.

[3702]-124 M.A. (Part -1) ENGLISH

Contemporary Critical Theory (Paper - 1.4) (Sem. - I)

[Max. Marks: 80

Instructions to the candidates:

1)    All questions are compulsory.

2)    All questions carry equal marks.

Q1 Answer any two of the following :

a)    Consider Dr. Johnson as a neo-classical critic.

b)    Discuss the views of Romanticists regarding the definition of poetry with reference to Preface to Lyrical Ballads.

c)    Explain with illustration Aristotles definition of tragedy.

Q2) Answer any two of the following :

a)    Explain Aristotles concept of imitation.

b)    Comment on the Romantic element in Wordsworths definition of poetry.

c)    Write a brief note on Johnsons criticism of Miltons Lycidas.

Q3) Answer any two of the following :

a)    Explain Eliots concept of Historical Sense.

b)    How does Richards distinguish between statements and pseudostatements?

c)    How, according to Richards, are pseudo-statements different from logic?

Q4) Answer any two of the following :

a)    What, according to Brooks, are the kinds of irony?

b)    Explain the views of Wimsatt and Beardsley on the intention of the author.

c)    Comment on Brooks views on irony as a strategy in modern poetry.

a)    Apply Richards notion of pseudo-statements to any poem you have studied.

b)    How would you apply Aristotles concept of Catharsis to Othello.

c)    Explain Brooks notion of irony with the help of Brownings poem Porphyrias Lover.

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M.A. (Part -1)

ENGLISH English Literature from 1550 to 1832 (Paper - 2.1) (Sem. - II)

Time: 3 Hours]    [Max. Marks: 80

Instructions to the candidates:

1)    All questions are compulsory.

2)    All questions carry equal marks.

QI) Explain any four with reference to the context in the light of some of the following points :

a)    Significance of the extract.

b)    Imagery/Symbolism.

c)    Allusions.

d)    Diction/Style.

e)    Literary Background.

i)    ........................ These beauteous thorns,

Through a long absence, have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind mans eye;

But oft, in lonely rooms, and mid the din Of towns and cities. I have owed to them In hours of weariness, sensations sweet,

Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart;

And passing even into my purer mind,

With tranquill restoration :

ii)    Unnumberd throngs on evry side are seen,

Of bodies changd to various forms by spleen.

Here living Tea-pots stand, one arm held out,

One bent; the handle this, and that the spout :

A Pipkin there, like Homers Tripod walks;

Here sighs a Jar, and there a Goose-pye talks;

Men prove with child, as powrful fancy works,

And maids turnd bottles, call aloud for corks.

iii)    He has outsoared the shadow of our night;

Envy and calumny and hate and pain,

And that unrest which men miscall delight,

Can touch him not and torture not again;

From the contagion of the worlds slow stain He is secure, and now can never mourn

A heart grown cold, a head grown grey in vain;

Nor, when the spirits self has ceased to burn,

With sparkless ashes load an unlamented urn.

iv)    The clouds that gather round the setting sun.

Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch oer mans mortality;

Another race hath been, and our palms are won,

Thanks to the human heart by which we live,

Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,

To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

v)    Then cease, bright Nymph! to mourn thy ravishd hair,

Which adds new glory to the shining sphere !

Not all the tresses that fair head can boast,

Shall draw such envy as the Lock you lost.

For, after all the murders of your eye,

When, after millions slain, yourself shall die;

When those fair suns shall set, as set they must,

And all those tresses shall be laid in dust;

vi)    The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me; my spirits bark is driven,

Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given;

The massy earth and sphered skies are riven !

I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar;

Q2) Write short notes on any two of the following in not more than 400 words each :

a)    Comment on Tintern Abbey as a nature poem.

b)    Adonais as an elegy.

c)    Element of mockery in The Rape of the Lock.

d)    Features of an ode in Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood.

Q3) Attempt any one of the following in about 800 words :

a)    The Way of the World is a satire on aristocracy. Discuss.

b)    Elaborate on the art of characterization in The Way of the World.

Q4) Attempt any one of the following in about 800 words :

a)    Comment on the ringing bells of marriage in Pride and Prejudice.

b)    Evaluate Pride and Prejudice as a domestic novel.

Q5) a) Write short notes on any one of the following in not more than 400 words each :

i)    Plot construction of The Way of the World.

ii)    Style and techniques used in The Way of the World.

b) Write short notes on any one of the following in not more than 400 words each :

i)    Significance of the title Pride and Prejudice.

ii)    The Bennet daughters.

[3702]-222 M.A. (Part -1)

ENGLISH English Literature from 1832 to 1980 (Paper - 2.2) (Sem. - II)

[Max. Marks: 80

Instructions to the candidates:

1)    All questions are compulsory.

2)    All questions carry equal marks.

QI) Explain any four with reference to the context in the light of some of the following points :

a)    Significance of the extract.

b)    Imagery/Symbolism.

c)    Allusions.

d)    Diction/Style.

e)    Literary Background.

i) Then at dawn we came down to a

temperate valley,

Wet, below the snow line, smelling of vegetation;

With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness,

And three trees on the low sky,

And an old white horse galloped in away in the meadow.

Then we came to a tavern with vine-leaves over the lintel,

Six hands at an open door dicing for pieces of silver,

And feet kicking the empty wine-skins.

ii)    No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do

To swell a progress, start a scene or two,

Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use,

Politic, cautious, and meticulous;

Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;

At times, indeed, almost ridiculous--Almost, at times, the Fool.

iii)    In every sense empirically true !

Or is it just the pastC Those flowers, that gate, These misty parks and motors, lacerate Simply by being you; you Contract my heart by looking out of date.

iv)    My feet are locked upon the rough bark.

It took the whole of Creation

To produce my foot, my each feather:

Now I hold Creation in my foot Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly -I kill where I please because it is all mine.

There is no sophistry in my body:

My manners are tearing off heads -

v)    A Minute holds them, who have come to go:

The self-defined, astride the created will They burst away: the towns they travel through Are home for neither bird nor holiness.

For birds and saints complete their purpose.

At worst, one is in motion: and at best,

Reaching no absolute, in which to rest,

One is always nearer by not keeping still.

vi)    Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs:

Despite the artful tensions of the calendar,

The life insurance, the tabled fertility rites,

The costly aversion of the eyes from death-Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs.

Q2) Write short notes on any two of the following in not more than 400 words each :

a)    Symbolism in The Jaguar.

b)    Significance of the title of Larkins poem Wants.

c)    The depiction of modern man in The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock.

d)    Marina as a dramatic monologue.

Q3) Attempt any one of the following in not more than 800 words :

a)    Consider The Birthday Party as an absurd play.

b)    Write a note on the peculiarities of the plot and structure of The Birthday Party.

Q4) Attempt any one of the following in not more than 800 words :

a)    Consider The Power and the Glory as a psychological novel.

b)    Discuss The Power and the Glory as a politico-religious novel.

Q5) a) Write short notes on any one of the following in not more than 400 words each :

i)    The interrogation scene in The Birthday Party.

ii)    A character sketch of Stanley Webber.

b) Write short notes on any one of the following in not more than 400 words each :

i)    The blending of good and evil in The Power and the Glory.

ii)    Priests encounter with the woman in The Power and the Glory.

[3702]-223 M.A. ENGLISH (Part - I) English Language Today - ( I ) (Paper - 2.3) (Sem. - II)

[Max. Marks: 80

Instructions to the candidates:

1)    All questions are compulsory.

2)    Figures to the right indicate full marks.

Q1 Answer any four of the following in not more than 200 words each . [16]

a)    What are the standards of language? Explain.

b)    Illustrate the difference between a pidgin and a creole.

c)    Write a note on the code-switching and its influence.

d)    Define the term stylistics in its broadest sense.

e)    Illustrate the difference between a sociolect and an idiolect.

f)    What is sociolinguistics? How does it help studying language in relation

to society?

Q2) Answer any four of the following in not more than 200 words each . [16]

a)    How is the AmE different from the BrE at the phonological level?

b)    Explain the concept of General Indian English.

c)    Bring out the differences between the diphthongs in GIE and BrE with suitable examples.

d)    What are the features of national varieties of English?

e)    Write a note on lexical differences between AmE and BrE.

f)    Explain with examples the spelling convention in AmE.

Q3) Write short notes on any four of the following in not more than 200 words each.    [16]

a)    Define the terms utterance and sentence with examples.

b)    What do you think is meant by the term turn-taking in conversation?

c)    Explain the felicity conditions that make communication effective.

d)    What are the types of presuppositions?

e)    Explain the term implicature with examples.

f)    Illustrate the concept of a speech act and its classification.

a)    Explain the term face and define negative and positive face of a person.

b)    Define the Gricean maxims of cooperative principle.

c)    What is the role of politeness principle in the process of conversation?

d)    Which are the determining factors in politeness?

e)    Explain the concept of adjacency pairs with examples.

f)    How does the observance of CP entail violation of PP?

Q5) a) Attempt any four of the following.    [4]

i)    Identify style of the following sentence.

Just wanted to let you know about our tour to Srilanka.

ii)    Give example of code-switching.

iii)    Identify the registral variety of the following text.

The doctors prescribed medicine to patients during the epidemic of swine flu in Pune.

iv)    The people who know two distinct languages are known as -------;

while the people who use different varieties of language are described as --------- .

v)    Define the process of mixing up of languages in the following. English is a lingua franca in India.

vi)    -------------is a group of people who interact by using a given

language.

b) Attempt any four of the following.    [4]

i)    Explain how the Indian speaker doesnt maintain distinction between the following pair of words.

men and main

ii)    Transcribe the following according to the common Indian pronunciations.

I have talked to the pupils about it.

iii)    Comment on the use of tense in Indian English in the following.

You know- Im observing you day and night?

iv)    Provide American English counterparts of the following words.

1)    Car .

2)    puncture .

v)    Identify the syntactic differences between AmE and BrE in the following.

1)    He hasnt got a new Mercedes car.

2)    He doesnt have a new Mercedes car.

vi)    Give two examples avoiding - ue in spelling in American English.

c)    Attempt any four of the following.    [4]

i)    What kind of inference is involved in interpreting the utterance? We should read Shakespeare once in life.

ii)    What are the deictic expressions in the following utterance? Im late today. Come tomorrow.

iii)    Give an example of anaphoric reference.

iv)    Identify the cohesive devices present in the following piece of text. He spoke to the clerk first; then consulted the executive regarding his case.

v)    Identify which would be the direct and indirect speech acts.

1)    You re in the way.

2)    Could you move aside?

vi)    What is an obvious presupposition of a speaker in the following? utterance? When did you see your boss?

d)    Attempt any four of the following.    [4]

i)    Which maxim of Cooperative Principle is observed in the following?

Correct me if Im not wrong, but their view is quite fundamental.

ii)    Give an example of question-answer Adjacency Pair.

iii)    Identify which maxim of Cooperative Principle is violated in the following.

A: Will you attend the seminar tomorrow?

B: I ve to complete the remaining work in two days.

iv)    Convert the following utterance into a polite expression. Dont you help me solving the question paper?

v)    Frame a sentence to illustrate the face-threatening act.

vi)    Give an example of the Tact maxim of politeness.

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M.A. (Part - II)

ENGLISH

Paper - 4.2: English Language and Literature Teaching H

(Semester - IV)

Time: 3 Hours]    [Max. Marks: 80

Instructions to the candidates:

1)    All questions are compulsory.

2)    All questions carry equal marks.

QI) a) How are courses in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) different from courses in English for General Purposes (EGP)?

OR

b) Distinguish between stylistic approach and pragmatic approach to the teaching of literature.

Q2) a) Answer any one of the following :

i)    Discuss the role of mother tongue as one of the major issues of English Language teaching in India.

ii)    Explain how the teaching of poetry can be made more effective?

OR

b) Answer any four of the following :

i)    What is contrastive analysis? How is it significant for language teachers?

ii)    What are the advantages of peer and micro teaching?

iii)    What is the significance of pre- reading questions in the teaching of fiction ?

iv)    What are the different techniques for teaching of drama?

v)    Explain the relevance of stylistic approach in teaching of poetry.

vi)    What is the relevance of Indian literature in English in the teaching of English in India?

i)    What are the types of errors? What care should a teacher take in order to plan a remedial course?

ii)    State how a remedial course is not a re - teaching course.

iii)    Comment on drama as literature and drama as performance in the context of teaching.

iv)    List some of the problems that a teacher faces while teaching large classes.

v)    Show how literature teaching and language teaching complement each other.

vi)    What are the salient features of English for specific purposes?

Q4) Write notes on any four of the following .

i)    Ways of making the study of poetry more pleasurable in classrooms.

ii)    Importance of aims and objectives in lesson plan.

iii)    Usefulness of English for Specific Purposes courses for foreign learners.

iv)    General and Specific aims of teaching non-native fiction in India.

v)    Teaching without lecturing.

vi)    Advantages and disadvantages of translation method.

Q5) Prepare a lesson plan or period plan to teach any one of the following.

i)    The teaching of the last act of a play of your interest to SYBA Special English class.

ii)    The teaching of a modern poem of your choice to TYBA Special English class.

iii)    The teaching of dialogue writing to TYBA Compulsory English class.

iv)    The teaching of direct and indirect speech to the students of FYBA Compulsory English class.

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[3702]-423 M.A. ENGLISH (Part -II)

Paper - 4.3: Dram (II)

(New Course - 2009)

(Semester - IV)

[Max. Marks: 80 Instructions to the candidates:

1)    All questions are compulsory.

2)    Figures to the right indicate full marks.

Q1 Answer the following in about 400 words each :    [16]

a) Comment on

i)    the elements of dramatic exposition;

ii)    the use of dialect; and

iii)    the significance of stage directions:

SMITHERS - (tightening his grasp-roughly) Easy! None o that, me birdie. You cant wriggle out now I got me ooks on yer.

WOMAN - (seeing the uselessness of struggling, gives way to frantic terror, and sinks to the ground, embracing his knees supplicatingly) No tell him! No tell him, Mister!

SMITHERS - (with great curiosity) Tell im? (then scornfully) Oh, you mean is bloomin Majesty. Whats the gaime, any ow? What you sneakin away for? Been stealin a bit, I spose. (He taps her bundle with his riding whip significantly.)

WOMAN - (shaking her head vehemently) No, me no steal.

SMITHERS - Bloody liar! But tell me whats up. Theres somethin funny goin on. I smelled it in the air first thing I got up this mornin. You blacks are up to some devilment. This palace of is like a bleedin tomb. Wheres all the ands? (The woman keeps sullenly silent. Smithers raises his whip threateningly.) Ow, yer wont, wont yer? Ill show yer whats what.

WOMAN - (coweringly) I tell, Mister. You no hit. They go - all go.(She makes a sweeping gesture toward the hills in the distance.)

SMITHERS -Run away - to the ills?

WOMAN -Yes, Mister. Him Emperor - great Father. (She touches her

forehead to the floor with a quick mechanical jerk.) Him sleep after eat. Then they go - all go. Me old woman. Me left only. Now me go too.

b) Analyse the following passage with reference to

i)    revelation of character

ii)    dramatic suspense and

iii)    foreshadowing.

NORA : You are just like the others. They all think that I am incapable of anything really serious-

MRS.LINDE: Come, come-

NORA : that I have gone through nothing in this world of cares.

MRS.LINDE: But, my dear Nora, you have just told me all your troubles.

NORA : Pooh!-those were trifles. [Lowering her voice.] I have not told you the important thing.

MRS.LINDE: The important thing? What do you mean?

NORA : You look down upon me altogether, Christine-but you ought not to. You are proud, arent you, of having worked so hard and so long for your mother?

MRS.LINDE: Indeed. I dont look down on anyone. But it is true that I am both proud and glad to think that I was privileged to make the end of my mothers life almost free from care.

NORA : And you are proud to think of what you have done for your brothers?

MRS.LINDE: I think I have the right to be.

NORA : I think so, too. But now, listen to this: I too have something to be proud and glad of.

MRS.LINDE: I have no doubt you have. But what do you refer to?

NORA : Speak low. Suppose Torvald were to hear! He mustnt on any account-no one in the world must know, Christine,except you.

MRS.LINDE: But what is it?

NORA : Come here. [Pulls her down on the sofa beside her.] Now I will show you that I too have something to be proud and glad of. It was I who saved Torvalds life.

Q2) a) Answer any one of the following in about 800 words:    [16]

i)    Emperor Jones is a play about the racial heritage of the American negro. Do you agree with this view?

ii)    The six scenes in the middle of the play Emperor Jones are an expressionistic monologue chronicling Joness nightmarish trip through the forest. Discuss this statement with special reference to the light, sound, and setting as a background to Joness spoken words.

OR

b) Answer any two of the following in about 400 words each:

i)    Comment on the ending of the play Emperor Jones.

ii)    Smithers.

iii)    Joness past.

iv)    Use of flashbacks in the play.

Q3) a) Answer any one of the following in about 800 words:    [16]

i)    Write a critical appreciation of The Crucible as a study of good and evil buffeted by the question of self - identity and morality.

ii)    Comment on the four - act structure of The Crucible.

OR

b) Write short notes on any two of the following in about 400 words each:

i)    Puritanism as portrayed in The Crucible.

ii)    The institution of the Court as presented by Arthur Miller.

iii)    Mary Warren.

iv)    Millers depiction of superstition in the play.

Q4) a) Answer any one of the following in about 800 words:    [16]

i)    Mahesh Dattanis play Final Solutions holds a mirror to the society we live in. Do you agree? Give reasons to justify your answer.

ii)    How does Mahesh Dattanis play Final Solutions succeed in making a good social theme into good theatre?

OR

b) Write short notes on any two of the following in about 400 words each:

i)    Hardika.

ii)    Final solutions as innovative theatre.

iii)    The title of the play.

iv)    The imaginative use of the chorus in the play.

Q5) a) Answer any one of the following in about 800 words:    [16]

i)    Attempt a critical appreciation of lbsens dramatic technique in A Dolls House.

ii)    Consider A Dolls House as a feminist play.

OR

b) Write short notes on any two of the following in about 400 words each:

i)    Dr. Rank.

ii)    The theme of deception in the play.

iii)    The Helmer household.

iv)    The significance of the ending - then and now.

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M.A. ENGLISH (Part - II)

Paper 4.S Poetry (II)

(New Course - 2009)

(Semester - IV)

Time: 3 Hours]    [Max. Marks: 80

Instructions to the candidates:

1)    All questions are compulsory.

2)    Figures to the right indicate full marks.

QI) a) Explain with reference to context any two of the following:    [8]

i)    As coconuts are tossed and touch water My Present identities dive, snatch libations From under gods nose.

The rains may truly fail this year Our prayers may go unheard.

ii)    nowadays

bangalore is full of mice and bandicoots

which are very nutrious

no crow is foolish enough

to fill half its stomach

with your brahmins polished rice.

iii)    Watch, listen to the calls of the ancestral spirits prodigal son To the call of the long awaited soil

They welcome you home, home.

iv)    he watched:

as one will watch a great clock striking time from a great booming midnight bell:

the silence slowly throbbing in behind the dying bell

b) Analyse the poetic devices used in any one of the following passages and comment on the diction, style and tone of the poet:    [8]

i) Thirty - six swords have pierced my heart Thirty - six fires have burnt my body.

And my blood on all calvaries has reddened the snow And my blood at every dawn has reddened all nature

Glad to carry the World,

Glad of my short arms

of my long legs

of the thickness of my lips.

I thank you God for creating me black,

White is a colour for special occasions

Black the colour for everyday

And I have carried the World since the dawn of time

And my laugh over the World, through the night, creates the Day.

ii) Twelve years with the John Company and he had never thought of death hacking away with its scythe as it swung past the black ghettoes where the native spawn petrified almost before it left the womb

And then hardly ten days after

the barber had spoken,

he went down the Hooghly

on his winter tour where his Sikh abdar

who had served him during

the bara hazri, fell stricken. The next day

our man Friday told him, now disease

come to stomach sahib, now

story finish. In dysentery

a gut feeling ceases to be

premonitory. That evening the Kanjars

burnt him, guts and all.

Q2) Answer any one of the following in about 800 words:    [16]

a)    Attempt a critical appreciation of Nissim Ezekiels poem Enterprise.

b)    How does Mahapatra portray the alienation of the lost children of America against the backdrop of the Cuttack cityscape?

Q3) Write short notes on any four of the following:    [16]

a) The angst of the Indian poet writing in English according to Syed Amanuddin

b)    Sense of the past in My Grandmothers House

c)    Local colour in The Lost Children of America

d)    Irony as a mode of discourse in A.K. Ramanujans Obituary

e)    Human apathy in Gieve Patels Naryal Purnima.

f)    The element of satire in Honnalgeres Of Crows

Q4) Answer any one of the following in about 800 words:    [16]

a)    Consider Derek Walcotts poem A Far Cry from Africa as a poem that captures the agony and ambivalence of a postcolonial writer.

b)    How does Edward Braithwaite handle the theme of death in his poem, So Long, Charlie Parker?

Q5) Write short notes on any four of the following:    [16]

a)    Kishwar Naheeds feminist stance in I am not that woman

b)    The central metaphor in Margaret Atwoods Journey to the Interior

c)    George Frederick Camerons call to the poet of The Future.

d)    The theme of unity and reconciliation in Senghors poem New York

e)    African Identity in If you want to know me

f)    The significance of the title of John Pepper Clarks poem The Casualties

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M.A. (Part - II)

ENGLISH

Multicultural Discourse in Immigrant Fiction (II)

(Paper - 4.8) (Sem. - IV)

Time: 3 Hours]    [Max. Marks: 80

Instructions to the candidates:

1)    All questions are compulsory.

2)    All questions carry equal marks.

QI) Attempt a discourse analysis of ANY TWO of the following extracts and bring out their pragmatic features.    [16]

a)    You tried to tell him about your mother, how shed seen her husbands face for the first time at her wedding. How, when he died (you were two years old then), she had taken off her jewelry and put on widows white and dedicated the rest of her life to the business of bringing you up. We only have each other, she often told you.

So?

She lives in a different world. Cant you see that? Shes never traveled more than a hundred miles from the village where she was born; shes never touched cigarettes or alcohol; even though she lives in Calcutta, shes never watched a movie.

So dont tell her, he said, that youre living in sin. With a foreigner, no less. Someone whose favorite food is sacred cow steak and Budweiser.

b)    Thats when I know I cannot go back. I dont know yet how Ill manage, here in this new, dangerous land. I only know I must. Because all over India, at this very moment, widows in white saris are bowing their veiled heads, serving tea to in-laws. Doves with cut-off wings.

I am standing in front of the mirror now, gathering up the sari. I tuck in the ripped end so it lies next to my skin, my secret. I make myself think of the store, although it hurts. Inside the refrigerated unit, blue milk cartons neatly lined up by Someshs hands. The exotic smell of Hills Brothers coffee brewed black and strong, the glisten of sugar-glazed donuts nestled in tissue. The neon Budweiser emblem winking on and off like a risky invitation.

c) Yes, thats it. I want a saffron Benarasi for the wedding.

Mashi is silent for a long moment. Then in a strangely quiet voice she says, Oh, my dear, not saffron, not that.

Why not? I ask, surprised by her uncharacteristic seriousness. Saffron is such a sorrowful color.

Funny you should say that. I always thought of it as rather festive - the color of beginnings.

I guess youre right. Its just that it reminds me

of....... Deepa Mashis voice disappears into a sigh.

Of what, Mashi?

Oh, nothing, nothing, its only a story,says Mashi.

Q2) Attempt a discourse analysis of ANY TWO of the following extracts and bring out their pragmatic features.    [16]

a)    Ashima took her seat and smoothed the pleats of her sari. She sensed the mother eyeing her with approval. Ashima was five feet four inches, tall for a Bengali woman, ninety-nine pounds. Her complexion was on the dark side of fair, but she had been compared on more than one occasion to the actress Madhabi Mukherjee. Her nails were admirably long, her fingers, like her fathers,artistically slim. They inquired after her studies and she was asked to recite a few stanzas from The Daffodils. The mans family lived in Alipore. The father was a labor officer for the customs department of a shipping company. My son has been living abroad for two years, the mans father said, earning a Ph.D. in Boston, researching in the field of fiber optics. Ashima had never heard of Boston, or of fiber optics. She was asked whether she was willing to fly on a plane and then if she was capable of living in a city characterized by severe, snowy winters, alone.

Wont he be there? shed asked, pointing to the man whose shoes shed briefly occupied, but who had yet to say a word to her.

b)    He heard his father cry out -they had left the camera with his mother. All this way, and no picture, hed said, shaking his head. He reached into his pocket and began to throw the striped stones into the water. We will have to remember it, then. They looked around, at the gray and white town that glowed across the harbor. Then they started back again, for a while trying not to make an extra set of footsteps, inserting their shoes into the ones they had just made. A wind had picked up, so strong that it forced them to stop now and then.

Will you remember this day, Gogol? his father had asked, turning back to look at him, his hands pressed like earmuffs to either side of his head.

How long do I have to remember it?

Over the rise and fall of the wind, he could hear his fathers laughter. He was standing there, waiting for Gogol to catch up, putting out a hand as Gogol drew near.

Try to remember it always, he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia stood waiting. Remember that you and I made this journey, that we went together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.

c) The sensation passes, only to be followed by a more enduring spasm of discomfort. In the bathroom she discovers, on her underpants, a solid streak of brownish blood. She calls out to her husband, Ashoke, a doctoral candidate in electrical engineering at MIT, who is studying in the bedroom. He leans over a card table; the edge of their bed, two twin mattresses pushed together under a red and purple batik spread,serves as his chair. When she calls out to Ashoke, she doesnt say his name. Ashima never thinks of her husbands name when she thinks of her husband, even though she knows perfectly well what it is. She has adopted his surname but refuses, for proprietys sake, to utter his first. Its not the type of thing Bengali wives do. Like a kiss or caress in a Hindi movie, a husbands name is something intimate and therefore unspoken, cleverly patched over. And so, instead of saying Ashokes name, she utters the interrogative that has come to replace it, which translates roughly as Are you listening to me?

Q3) Answer any two of the following :    [16]

a)    Doors and Clothes bring out the internalization of American values by Indian women. Discuss.

b)    The Ultrasound is an expression of the power of female bonding. Comment.

c)    Arranged Marriage is a reflection of the conflicting immigrant psyche. Discuss with reference to any two stories you have read.

Q4) Answer any two of the following :    [16]

a)    Do you think that the sense of hybridity is evident in Gogol, the name and Gogol, the person in The Namesake?

b)    Ashima Ganguli represents the nostalgic diaspora and yet she is able to be a whole being. Comment.

c)    Characters in The Namesake are victims of clash of cultures. Elucidate.

Q5) Answer briefly any two of the following :    [16]

a)    What is Ashoke Gangulis gift to his son?

b)    Why does Ashima Ganguli decide to stay in America?

c)    Write a note on the relationship between clothes and womans existence in the story Clothes.

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