Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) 2008 B.A English EEG-1: Language Through Literature/ From Language To Literature - - Question Paper
EEG-l/BEGE-101
BACHELORS DEGREE PROGRAMME Term-End Examination December, 2008 ELECTIVE COURSE : ENGLISH-1 EEG-1/BEGE-101 : LANGUAGE THROUGH LITERATURE / FROM LANGUAGE TO LITERATURE
Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100
(Weightage 70%)
Note : Answer any five questions. All questions carry equal marks.
1. (a) Read the following poem and answer the
questions given at the end : 10
She, the river, said to him, the sea:
All my life .
Ive been dissolving myself and flowing towards you for your sake
in the end it was I who turned into the sea a womans gift is as large as the sky but you went on worshipping yourself you never thought of becoming a river and merging with me
(i) What does becoming a river mean ? 3
(ii) What is the meaning of the phrase worshipping yourself ? 3
(iii) From whose point of view is the poem written ? 2
(iv) What literary device has the poet used to express herself ? 2
(b) Define the following giving suitable examples : 10
(i) Onomatopoeia
(ii) Simile
(iii) Allegory
(iv) Understatement
(v) Irony
negatives
(i) playable
(ii) credit
(iii) judicial
(iv) legible
(v) proper
(b) Use the following words as directed in sentences of your own : 5
(i) advocate (as verb)
(ii) humble (as verb)
(iii) select (as adjective)
(iv) fall (as noun)
(v) sea (in a compound word like basketball)
(c) Fill in the blanks choosing suitable phrases (in their correct form) from the list given below : get over, get at, get around, get through,
get into, get off 20
(i) We must try to_the truth.
(ii) It is not easy to_the examination.
(iii) Clever people can often _ the
tax laws.
(iv) Did your daughter places ?
the final three
(v) Sooner or later you will shock.
the
3. (a) Correct the following sentences : 10
(i) Entrance to the show is by tickets.
(ii) We enjoyed at the picnic very much.
(iii) I am thinking she is all right.
(iv) She has no any information about the matter.
(v) Would you like going out for swim ?
(b) Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions : 10
(i) My wife hails __Rohtak but I belong
_Gurgaon.
(ii) Many young couples have no time to look ___ their old parents.
(iii) You mustnt joke him__
religion.
(iv) I am very enthusiastic_theatre
but I am not good _acting.
(v) Education should be geared __
the needs of the children.
(vi) Government must look _ the
death of farmers.
(vii) She took _ him as soon as they
met.
4. (a) Read the passage below and point out the literary
and rhetorical devices used in it. 10
A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so. You may ask why I am saying all this. I say it because I fear for the younger generation, for you people. He waved his arm where most of the young men sat. As for me, I have only a short while to live, and so have Uchendu and Unachukwu and Emefo. But I fear for you young people because you do not understand how strong is the bond of kinship.
You do not know what it is to speak with one voice. And what is the result ? An abominable religion has settled among you. A man can now leave his father and his brothers. He can curse the gods of his fathers and his ancestors, like a hunters dog that suddenly goes mad and turns on his master. I fear for you; I fear for the clan.
(b) Add prefixes/suffixes to the following words and use them as directed :
(i) create (as abstract noun)
(ii) poetic (as a verb)
(iii) lyric (as a noun that means a writer of songs)
(iv) nostalgia (as adjective)
(v) friend (as adjective)
5. (a) Insert suitable articles in the following passage wherever necessary :
One of_boys asked him why he chose
_ name Venu for himself. Because,
he said, 1 am that, _ flute. _
creator of music is someone else, I am only _instrument.
(b) Insert suitable conjunctions in the blanks :
(i) I try to protest_my companions
who insist __I accept the offer.
(ii) _ this was done, they went
through the complicated process of settling a marriage.
(iii) _ I say no to them, they think I
am hard-hearted.
(iv) She couldnt be expected to cook and eat _her husband starved.
(c) Identify the figure of speech in each of the
following sentences : 10
(i) I have read the entire Premchand.
(ii) The Earth had decreed that they were an offence on the land and must be destroyed.
(iii) He felt a relief within as the hymns poured into his parched soul.
(iv) They have cast you out like a leper.
(v) He went to eternal sleep rather quietly.
6. Write short notes on any two of the following :
2x10=20
(i) Expressing different degrees of politeness
(ii) Metaphor
(iii) Assonance
(iv) Hyperbole
|
Attachment: |
| Earning: Approval pending. |
