Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) 2007 Post Graduate Diploma Journalism (Oriya) ENGLISH ASSIGNMENT -2008 - Question Paper

PAPER I – BRITISH POETRY
Assignment No. 1
(Blocks one to 4)
To be submitted on or before 31-7-2008
Max. Marks: 30 Min. Marks: 12
Note: ans any 2 ques.
1. Attempt an analysis of the portraits of the Knight, the Prioress and the Miller from your study of Chaucer’s Prologue.
2. In the 3 sonnets from the Amoretti by Spenser thaty you have studied, what do you consider are the specifically Petrarchan elements? How does Spenser rework them?
3. Attempt a critical appreciation of the poem, The Flea.
4. Examine the elegiac element in Milton’s Lycidas.
PAPER two – BRITISH DRAMA
Assignment No. 1
(Blocks one to 4)
To be submitted on or before 31-7-2008
Max. Marks: 30 Min. Marks: 12
Note: ans any 2 ques.
1. explain Doctor Faustus as essentially a Renaissance tragedy.
2. What is the basic plot of Romantic comedy? How does Shakespeare alter it in A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
3. Examine Hamlet as a revenge play.
4. Comment on the structure of Jonson’s The Alchemist.

PAPER three – BRITISH NOVEL
Assignment No. 1
(Blocks one to 4)
To be submitted on or before 31-7-2008
Max. Marks: 30 Min. Marks: 12
Note: ans any 2 ques.
1. Examine Fielding’s point of view in Tom Jones.
2. Write a note on the narrative technique in Pride and Prejudice.
3. explain the character of Heathcliff as portrayed in Wuthering Heights.
4. Show how the idea of self-improvement is intrinsically woven into the fabric of Great Expectations.
PAPER four – ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE
Assignment No. 1
(Blocks one to 4)
To be submitted on or before 31-7-2008
Max. Marks: 30 Min. Marks: 12
Note: ans any 2 ques.
1. Examine the relationship ranging from language and thought.
2. explain the process of word formation.
3. Examine the rules for the placement of primary stress on words.
4. explain the inflectional morphology of the English verb.




PAPER I – BRITISH POETRY
Assignment No. 2
(Block five onwards)
To be submitted on or before 31-8-2008
Max. Marks: 30 Min. Marks: 12
Note: ans any 2 ques.
1. explain Kubla Khan as an allegorical poem.
2. Examine The Blessed Damozel as an example of Pre-Raphaelite poetry.
3. Examine Yeats’s use of history in Easter 1916 and Lapis Lazuli.
4. With reference to the poems you have read, trace the development of Sylvia Plath’s persons from a docile, submissive woman into a fury raging for revenge.
PAPER two – BRITISH DRAMA
Assignment No. 2
(Block five onwards)
To be submitted on or before 31-8-2008
Max. Marks: 30 Min. Marks: 12
Note: ans any 2 ques.
1. Write an essay on the contrast of characters in the play Pygmalion.
2. Delineate the nature of the 4 temptations that Beckett undergoes in Murder in the Cathedral.
3. Do the social and the economic realities of Britain in the 1950s obtain expression direct or indirect in Look Back in Anger? If so how?
4. Examine Waiting for Godot as an existential play.

PAPER three – BRITISH NOVEL
Assignment No. 2
(Block five onwards)
To be submitted on or before 31-8-2008
Max. Marks: 30 Min. Marks: 12
Note: ans any 2 ques.
1. Write a note on the main tenets of Determinism and show how the philosophy explains the personality of Lydgate and Rosamand.
2. explain the structure of Joyce’s A Portrait.
3. How does Forster subvert the content of the travel-guide in A Passage to India.
4. Write a note on how Spark conceives the plot in order to current the central concern of the novel.
PAPER four – ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE
Assignment No. 2
(Block five onwards)
To be submitted on or before 31-8-2008
Max. Marks: 30 Min. Marks: 12
Note: ans any 2 ques.
1. Write an essay on bilingualism.
2. Examine the various kinds of language planning.
3. elaborate the similarities and differences ranging from Canadian and American English? Why?
4.Discuss the various sentence kinds in English.

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