Kurukshetra University 2009 Post Graduate Diploma Journalism (Oriya) English A - Question Paper

BAE/A09
ENGLISH
Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks: 45

Note: - All ques. are compulsory.

1. (a) Explain with reference to the situation :
When yet I had not walked above
A mile or 2 from my 1st love,
And looking back, at that short space
Could see a glimpse of His bright face.
OR
But such a tide as moving seems asleep
Too full for sound and foam
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.
(b) Our country is a big country and there is a great deal to be done by all of us. If every of us does his or her little bit then all this mounts up and the country prospers and goes ahead fast.
OR
There are many countries in Asia and Africa and also in Latin America, where girls have far less opportunity of schooling than boys do. There are other deficiencies in basic facilities available to women, varying from encouragement to cultivate one’s natural talents to fair partition in rewarding social functions of the community.
4+4 = 8

2 Answer any 5 of the subsequent ques. :
(a) How has beauty been defined as weak before time?
(b) How does the poet relate death with rest and sleep?
(c) What is the rhyme scheme On His Blindness?
(d) What does a child see in childhood?
(e) Who is the ‘pilot’ in the poem Crossing The Bar?
(f) Explain the phrase ‘bursting bought of May’.
(g) How does Yeats define the false lovers?
OR
(a) How did the lawyer feel during the 1st year of confinement?
(b) What showed that refugees were all from 1 region?
(c) Who was Ma Parker?
(d) How old is Nambi? How does he tell his age?
(e) Who was Dr. Arnold Toynbee?
(f) Who is the writer of the essay ‘A Talk on Advertising’?
(g) If a nuclear war breaks out, who will be our enemy?
(h) What does the author mean by natality inequality?
5

3. (a) Sum up in your own words Pope’s conception of man in Know
Then Thyself.
OR
explain the theme of the poem ‘Nightingales’.
(b) Draw a pen picture of Ratan in The Post Master.
OR
‘The best way of acting a part is to be it’ reveals Holmes. define the means he adopts to simulate a dying, delirious man.
9+9=18

4. Why does Manu speak of Varana Bahyas according to the writer? elaborate the 2 subdivisions within the class of Varna Bahyas?
OR
Narrate in your own words how and when Todd ‘borrowed’ the dollar.
9

5. Do as directed :
change the subsequent words into abstract nouns:
Oppose, marry, move, select

change the voice:
Todd borrowed this dollar last year.
We spent the evening together.
He sent me a note from Hamilton.
5

Earning:   Approval pending.