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1. Explain any four with reference to the context in the light of some
of the following points : [16]
(a) Significance of the extract
(b) Imagery/Symbolism
(c) Diction/Style
(d) Allusions
(e) Literary background.
(i) Early, before the worlds light-giving lampe
His golden beame upon the hils doth spred,
Having disperst the nights unchearefull dampe,
Doe ye awake; and, with fresh lusty-hed,
Go to the bowre of my beloved love,
My truest turtle dove;
Bid her awake; for Hymen is awake.
P.T.O.
(ii) If thou be’est born to strange sights,
Things invisible to see,
Ride ten thousand days and nights,
Till age snow white hairs on thee,
Thou, when thou return’st, wilt tell me,
All strange wonders that befell thee,
And swear
No where
Lives a woman true, and fair.
(iii) Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not soe,
For, those, whom thou think’st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill mee.
From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee,
Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,
Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie.
(iv) But O the heavy change now thou art gone,
Now thou art gone, and never must return !
Thee, Shepherd, thee the woods and desert caves,
With wild thyme and the gadding vine o’ergrown,
And all their echoes mourn:
The willows and the havel copses green
Shall now no more be seen
Fanning their joyous leaves to thy soft lays.
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(v) 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 therewith my maker, and present
My true account, lest he returning chide,
Doth God exact day-labour, light deny’d,
I fondly ask;
(vi) And ye three handmayds of the Cyprian Queene,
The which doe still addorne her beauties pride,
Helpe to addorne my beautifullest bride:
And as ye her array, still throw between
Some graces to be seene,
And as ye vse to Venus, to her sing,
The whiles the woods shal answer and your eccho ring.
2. Write short notes on any two of the following in not more than
400 words each : [16]
(i) Lycidas as a pastoral elegy.
(ii) The autobiographical element in On His Blindness.
(iii) Extasie as a metaphysical poem.
(iv) Allusions to classical mythology in Lycidas.
3. Answer any one of the following in not more than 800 words : [16]
(i) Comment on the dramatic irony in Othello.
(ii) Critically examine Othello as a Shakespearean hero.
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4. Answer any one of the following in not more than 800 words : [16]
(i) Comment on the lack of structural cohesion and consistency
in The Vicar of Wakefield.
(ii) Show how The Vicar of Wakefield faithfully depicts the rural
life of the Eighteenth Century England.
5. (a) Write short note on any one of the following in not more
than 400 words : [8]
(i) The use of Soliloquies in Othello.
(ii) The theme of jealousy in Othello.
(b) Write short note on any one of the following in not more
than 400 words : [8]
(i) Dr. Primrose as an ideal father
(ii) A character sketch of Mr. Burchell.
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No. [4702]-122
M.A. (Part I) (First Semester) EXAMINATION, 2015
ENGLISH
Paper 1.2
(English Literature from 1832 to 1980)
(2008 PATTERN)
Time : Three Hours Maximum Marks : 80
N.B. :— (i) All questions are compulsory.
(ii) All questions carry equal marks.
1. 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) Fra Pandolf by design for never read
Strangers like you that pictured countenance,
The depth and passion of its earnest glance,
But to myself they turned (Since none puts by
The curtain I have drawn for you, but I).
P.T.O.
(ii) There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail,
Souls that have toil’d, and wrought, and thought with me,
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Troubles my sight : somewhere in sands of the desert
2. Write short notes on any two of the following in not more than
psychology.
3. Attempt any one of the following in not more than 800 words :
to light in “Pygmalion”.
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4. Attempt any one of the following in not more than 800 words :
India”.
5. (a) Write a short note on any one of the following in not more
(b) Write a short note on any one of the following in not more
than 400 words :
(i) The trial of Dr. Aziz in “A Passage to India”.
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No. [4702]-123
ENGLISH
Paper 1.3
(2008 PATTERN)
1. Answer any four of the following in not more than 200 words each : [16]
P.T.O.
2. Answer any four of the following in not more than 200 words each : [16]
English.
‘exposure’.
processes.
English.
3. Write short notes on any four of the following in not more than
(b) Adverbials
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4. Answer any four of the following in not more than 200 words each : [16]
examples.
(e) Define the semantic roles such as theme, agent and instrument
of the nouns.
stress.
(c) Give the three term label for the sounds in the word
‘go’.
(d) Divide the following sentence into the tone groups and
boy’.
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(e) Mark the stress and intonation in the following
sentence :
(f) Identify the syllables in the word ‘plagiarism’ and give their
structure.
process.
(b) Form the words by using the prefixes ‘de- and ‘in-
words :
of :
‘non-accessibility’
‘dented’.
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(C) Attempt any four of the following : [4]
(c) Explain the error that you find in the following sentence :
following :
collocations :
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(c) Explain the underlined words in the following sentence
as ‘homophone’ :
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No. [4702]-124
ENGLISH
Paper 1.4
(2008 PATTERN)
illustrations.
P.T.O.
3. Answer any two of the following :
(c) What are ‘pseudo statements’ ? How do they differ from ‘scientific
statements’ ?
examples.
of poetry ?
Duchess.
Pseudo Statements.
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No. [4702]-221
M.A. (Part I) (Second Semester) EXAMINATION, 2015
ENGLISH
Paper 2.1
(English Literature from 1550 to 1832)
(2008 PATTERN)
Time : Three Hours Maximum Marks : 80
N.B. :— (i) All questions are compulsory.
(ii) All questions carry equal marks.
1. 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.
(1) Most musical of mourners, weep again !
Lament anew, Urania ! He died,
Who was the Sire of an immortal strain,
Blind, old and lonely, when his country’s pride,
The priest, the slave and the liberticide,
Trampled and mock’d with many a loathed rite
Of lust and blood; he went, unterrified,
Into the gulf of death; but his clear Sprite
Yet reigns o’er earth; the third among the sons of light.
P.T.O.
(2) WHAT dire Offence from am’rous causes springs,
2. Write short notes on any two of the following in not more than
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3. Attempt any one of the following in about 800 words :
5. (a) Write a short note on any one of the following in not more
than 400 words :
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No. [4702]-222
M.A. (Part I) (Second Semester) EXAMINATION, 2015
ENGLISH
Paper 2.2
(English Literature from 1832 to 1980)
(2008 PATTERN)
Time : Three Hours Maximum Marks : 80
N.B. :— (i) All questions are compulsory.
(ii) All questions carry equal marks.
1. 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.
(1) Beyond all this, the wish to be alone;
However the sky grows dark with invitation cards,
However we follow the printed directions of sex,
However the family is photographed under the flag staff
Beyond all this, the wish to be alone.
P.T.O.
(2) The apes yawn and adore their fleas in the sun.
(They will say, “But how his arms and legs are thin !”)
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(5) Then at dawn we came down to a tempertae valley,
2. Write short notes on any two of the following in not more than
Prufrock”.
3. Attempt any one of the following in not more than 800 words :
(1) Discuss how “The Birthday Party” brings out the failure of
communication.
(2) Consider “The Birthday Party” as an absurd play.
[4702]-222 3 P.T.O.
4. Attempt any one of the following in not more than 800 words :
5. (a) Write a short note on any one of the following in not more
than 400 words :
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No. [4702]-223
M.A. (Part I) (Second Semester) EXAMINATION, 2015
ENGLISH
Paper 2.3
(English Language Today)
(2008 PATTERN)
Time : Three Hours Maximum Marks : 80
N.B. :— (i) All questions are compulsory.
1. Answer any four of the following in not more than 200 words
each : [16]
(a) Write a note on the ‘code-switching’ and its influence.
(b) Illustrate the difference between ‘language’ and ‘dialect’.
2. Answer any four of the following in not more than 200 words
each : [16]
(a) What are the features of syntax in American English ?
P.T.O.
(b) What are the syntactic features of GIE ?
English.
(d) Bring out the difference between the plosives in GIE and BrE
BrE ?
3. Write short notes on any four of the following in not more than
4. Answer any four of the following in not more than 200 words
each : [16]
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(b) Explain the concept of ‘face’ and its importance in
conversation.
(c) What are the governing factors in the violation of the maxim
of quality ?
conversation.
is called .............................. .
(5) ‘He is quite a four twenty I tell you. Never trust that
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(b) Attempt any four of the following : [4]
‘Give it me.’
following :
words :
(i) Petrol
following :
(i) honor
(ii) traveler.
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(c) Attempt any four of the following : [4]
utterance ?
‘In the school just now they were saying that the mechine
of text :
I was waiting for the train, but she simply went away.
(5) Identify which the direct and indirect speech acts would
be :
utterance ?
following ?
B : Mary.
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(2) Give an example of ‘request-refusal’ Adjacency Pair.
in the following :
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No. [4702]-224
M.A. (Part I) (Second Semester) EXAMINATION, 2015
ENGLISH
Paper 2.4
(Contemporary Critical Theory)
(2008 PATTERN)
Time : Three Hours Maximum Marks : 80
N.B. :— (i) All questions are compulsory.
(ii) All questions carry equal marks.
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No. [4702]-321
P.T.O.
3. Attempt any two of the following : [16]
(i) How is the review of relevant literature useful in
research ? Explain with examples.
(ii) ‘‘A hypothesis offers a tentative solution to the research problem
formulated earlier.’’ Comment on the importance of hypothesis
in the research process.
(iii) What is the significance of ‘aims and objectives’ in
research ? Illustrate citing suitable examples.
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(iv) If you have to do a research project analyzing spelling errors
committed by students in a school, what hypotheses will you
develop ?
(v) Consider that you are doing research in the area of drama.
Write the aims and objectives of the research.
(vi) State the scope and limitations of the research topic Inculcation
of Reading Culture at Undergraduate Level : A Survey of the
Colleges Affiliated to Savitribai Phule Pune University.
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No. [4702]-322
P.T.O.
(iii) Consider validity as a characteristic of a good
test.
(b) What are the important presentation skills ? Explain how any
one of them can be taught in the classroom.
(f) What are reference skills ? How are they useful in learning
English ?
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5. Read the passage carefully and attempt any one task (A or B)
given below the passage : [16]
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soughtafter piece of information, this technology boom has sequestered
us to the confines of our computer desks and homes and has removed
us away from those traditional settings were personal and communication
(3) Select any three items of vocabulary and explain how they
Or
(1) How will you use the passage to teach the skill of
listening ?
(2) How will you use the passage to teach the use of articles ?
(4) Explain how you will use the passage to teach cohesion ?
(5) How will you use the passage to teach the skill of speaking ?
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No. [4702]-323
P.T.O.
3. (a) Answer any one of the following : [16]
Or
Or
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5. (a) Answer any one of the following : [16]
Or
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No. [4702]-324
ENGLISH
(Optional)
(2008 PATTERN)
(a) Discuss the elements of fiction, illustrating from any novel that
Heights.
Heights.
P.T.O.
Or
Or
(iii) Jewel
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Or
(ii) Geraldine
Or
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M.A. (Part II) (Third Semester) EXAMINATION, 2015
ENGLISH
Optional Paper 3.5
(Poetry—I)
(2008 PATTERN)
Time : Three Hours Maximum Marks : 80
N.B. :— (i) All questions are compulsory.
(ii) Figures to the right indicate full marks.
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4. Attempt any one of the following : [16]
(a) Bring out the salient features of the style of Emily Dickinson
with reference to her poems you have studied.
(b) “ ‘The Problem’ is a probably the high water-mark of
American poetry prior to the work of the present generation.”
Discuss.
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Seat
No. [4702]-326
ENGLISH
(2008 PATTERN)
‘parole’.
(b) Distinguish between ‘free direct speech’ and ‘free indirect speech’.
P.T.O.
3. Answer any four of the following :
(a) Distinguish between ‘ordinary language’ and ‘literary language’.
(b) Differentiate between ‘segmental’ and ‘suprasegmental’
features.
(c) Write a note on ‘devices for achieving foregrounding’.
(d) Write a note on the role of simple, compound and complex
sentences in literature.
(e) Explain the difference between ‘iambic’ and ‘spondee’ feet.
(f) Differentiate between ‘gradable’ and ‘ungradable’ antonyms.
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her. “There’s a unicorn in the garden,” he said. “Eating roses.” She
opened one unfriendly eye and looked at him.
“The unicorn is a mythical beast,” she said, and turned her back
to him. The man walked slowly downstairs and out into the garden.
The unicorn was still there; now he was browsing among the tulips.
“Here, unicorn,” said the man, and he pulled up a lily and gave
it to him. The unicorn ate it gravely. With a high heart, because
there was a unicorn in his garden, the man went upstairs and roused
his wife again. “The unicorn,” he said, “ate a lily.” His wife sat
up in bed and looked at him coldly. “You are a booby,” she said,
“and I am going to have you put in the booby hatch.”
The man, who had never liked the words “booby” and “booby-hatch,”
and who liked them even less on a shining morning when there
was a unicorn in the garden, thought for a moment. “We’ll see
about that,” he said. He walked over to the door. “He has a golden
horn in the middle of his forehead,” he told her. Then he went
back to the garden to watch the unicorn; but the unicorn had gone
away. The man sat down among the roses and went to sleep.
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No. [4702]-327
P.T.O.
(c) How does Jacob Mey throw light on the concepts ‘the physical
world’ and ‘the social world’ ?
(b) What is a speech act ? Explain its three dimensions giving suitable
examples.
(c) Differentiate between direct speech act and indirect speech act.
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(b) Identify the physical, mental and social world in the following
extract and comment on their importance in understanding the
text :
But the first time I saw her, I mean I saw her in real
life ....! How I wish one would whistle in print ! A long,
low whistle would express my feelings more than any words I
know.
(iv) If you get ‘A’ grade, I will buy a bullet motorcycle for you.
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(d) Identify the speech acts (i.e. declarative, assertative, commissive,
expressive, directive) in the following utterances :
(ii) The Judge : “You are sentenced for ten year imprison-
ment”.
The next morning Ganga Ram brought back the saucer with the
milk still in it. He looked sullen and suspicious. ‘I told you snakes
like frogs better than milk’.
Whilst we changed and had breakfast Ganga Ram stayed near us.
The school bus came and we climbed into it with the tin. As the
bus started we held out the tin to Ganga Ram. ‘Here’s your Kala
Nag. Safe in this box. We are going to put him in spirit. We left
him standing speechless, staring at the departing bus.
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Seat
No. [4702]-328
ENGLISH
(2008 PATTERN)
literature ?
discourse of identity.
‘Jasmine’.
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5. Attempt any two of the following : [16]
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No. [4702]-421
ENGLISH
(2008 PATTERN)
literature ?
in research.
work.
P.T.O.
2. Attempt any two of the following :
Discuss.
(i) Explain the term ‘findings’ and state with examples the ways
report ? Explain.
of bibliographical entries.
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5. Attempt any four of the following questions. Support your answers
style sheet.
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No. [4702]-422
ENGLISH
(2008 PATTERN)
course ?
Or
classroom ?
Explain in detail.
P.T.O.
Or
of literature ?
purposes ?
English classroom.
and syntax.
a novel ?
poetry ?
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(e) What are the stylistic features that you would focus on in
Friends,
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5. Prepare a lesson plan or period plan to teach any one of the following
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No. [4702]-423
ENGLISH
(Optional)
(2008 PATTERN)
(a) Comment on :
(i) Setting
(iii) Language.
In the forest. The moon has just risen. Its beams, drifting
P.T.O.
encompassing barrier. A path is dimly discerned leading down
the ground before him, picking them up, shaking them, casting
approaching along the trail from the left are heard and Jones’
De moon’s rizen. Does you heah dat, nigger ? You gits more
light from dis out. No mo’ buttin’ yo’ fool head agin’ de trunks
an’ scratchin’ de hide off yo’ legs in de bushes. Now you sees
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and mops off his face on his sleeve. He has lost his Panama
light no match to find out. Phoo’. It’s wa’m an’ dats a fac’
Must be hours an’ hours. Seems like fo’evah ! Yit can’t be,
when de moon’s jes’ riz. Dis am a long night fo’ yo’, yo’
min’. It’s all part o’ de game. Dis night come to an end like
everything else. And when you gits dar safe and has dat bankroll
in yo’ hands you laughs at all dis. (He starts to whistle but
to listen). Heah dat ole drum ! Sho’ gits nearer from de sound.
I gits dem notions. (He walks quickly into the clear space-
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Who dar ? Who dat ? Is dat you, Jeff ? (starting toward
of happy relief) Jeff ! I’se sho’ mighty glad to see you ! Dey
tol’ me you done died from dat razor cut I gives you. (stopping
his mechanical play with the dice. Jones’ eyes begin to roll
Has I got to kill you agin ? You take it den. (He fires. When
the smoke clears away Jeff has disappeared. Jones sands trembling-
or no ha’nt, dat shot fix him. (The beat of the far-off tom-
let ‘em know jes’ whar I is. Oh, Gorry, I’se got to run. (Forgetting
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Or
(b) Comment on :
(i) Domestic strife
(ii) Helmer’s guilt
(iii) Dramatic significance.
Elizabeth : I think you must go to Salem, John. He turns
to her. I think so. You must tell them it is
a fraud.
Proctor : thinking beyond this : Aye, it is, it is surely.
Elizabeth : Let you go to Ezekiel Cheever-he knows you
well. And tell him what she said to you last
week in her uncle’s house. She said it had naught
to do with witchcraft did she not ?
Proctor : in thought : Aye, she did, she did. Now, a
pause.
Elizabeth : quietly, fearing to anger him by prodding : God
for-bid you keep that from the court, John. I
think they must be told.
Proctor : quietly, struggling with his thought : Aye, they
must, they must. It is a wonder they do believe
her.
Elizabeth : I would go to Salem now, John-let you go tonight.
Proctor : I’ll think on it.
Elizabeth : with her courage now : You cannot keep it,
John.
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Proctor : angering : I know I cannot keep it. I say I
will think on it !
Elizabeth : hurt, and very coldly : Good, then, let you think
the room.
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Proctor : with a violent undertone : You doubt me
yet ?
Elizabeth : And I.
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2. (a) Answer any one of the following in about 800 words
each : [16]
(i) Bring out the thematic significance of the forest scenes
in The Emperor Jones.
(ii) Present a character sketch of Brutus Jones.
Or
(b) Write short notes on any two of the following in about 400
words each :
(i) Jones’ greed
(ii) Scene division in The Emperor Jones
(iii) Psychological theme in The Emperor Jones
(iv) ‘Unmasking’ in The Emperor Jones.
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4. (a) Answer any one of the following in about 800 words
each : [16]
play.
Or
(b) Write short notes on any two of the following in about 400
words each :
(iv) Daksha.
each : [16]
(ii) How does Nora’s character change through the play A Doll’s
House ?
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Or
(b) Write short notes on any two of the following in about 400
words each :
(i) Animal imagery in The Doll’s House
(ii) The theme of moral degeneration in The Doll’s House
(iii) Krogstad
(iv) Symbolism of doll in The Doll’s House.
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1. Read the following passages and comment on critically with the help
(A) “At the same time all the sweat that had gathered in my
by this veil of salty tears. All I could feel were the cymbals
on the gun. The trigger gave, I felt the underside of the polished
butt and it was there, in that sharp but deafening noise, that
it all started. I shook off the sweat and the sun. I realized
that I’d destroyed the balance of the day and the perfect silence
of this beach where I’d been happy. And I fired four more
a mark. And it was like giving four sharp knocks at the door
of unhappiness.”
(ii) Characterisation.
(B) “ ‘This insuranburning’, Mr. Biswas said, and his tone was light,
‘who going to see about it ? Me ?’ He was putting himself
from Mrs. Tulsi and Shama took away her hand from Mrs.
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Mrs. Tulsi began to splutter. ‘He want’, she said in English,
– into – ’
(ii) Characterisation
Or
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(ii) Social classes depicted in Kanthapura.
Or
(iv) Jeeja.
Or
(iv) Raymond.
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5. (A) Answer any one of the following :
Or
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No. [4702]-425
1. (a) Explain with reference to the context (any two) of the following :
[8]
(i) If you want to understand me
come, bend over this soul of Africa
in the black dockworker’s groans
the chape’s frienzied dances
the changana’s rebellion
in the strange sadness which flows
from an African song, through the height.
(ii) I am glad
Of the shape of my head
Made to carry the world,
Content
With the shape of my nose
P.T.O.
That must snuff every wind of the world
Pleased
With the shape of my legs
Ready to run all the heats of the world.
(iii) If I made you sad
look at yourself in the water of repeat
you will decipher
there a world I have left.
(iv) Father, when he passed on,
left dust
on a table full of papers,
left debts and daughters
(b) Comment on the use of diction and imagery in one of the
following : [8]
(i) A body tattooed with wounds seen unseen
From the harsh whipstrokes of slavery
Tortured and magnificent
Proud and mysterious
Africa from head to foot
This is what I am
(ii) But a grave voice answers me
Impetuous son that tree young and strong
That tree there
Is splendid loneliness
Amidst white and faded flowers
That is Africa your Africa
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2. Answer any one of the following in about 800 words : [16]
(a) Discuss in detail irony and satire in the poems ‘Of Crows’
and ‘Obituary’.
(a) Explain the salient features of the African poetry that you
have studied.
Discuss.
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5. Write short notes on any four of the following : [16]
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3. Answer any four of the following :
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And sings a melancholy strain;
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Whatever the theme, the maiden sang
(B) HELMER (Calls out from his room); Is that my little lark
NORA : Yes!
NORA : Just now. (Puts the bag of macaroons into her pocket
and wipes her mouth) Coming here, Torvald, and see what
I have bought.
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HELMER : Don’t disturb me. (A little later, he opens the door
and looks into the room, pen in hand.) Bought, did you say ?
again ?
NORA : Yes, but, Torvald, this year we really can let ourselves
to economise.
can’t we ? Just a tiny wee bit! You are going to have a big
by the ear.) The same little feather brain! Suppose, now, that
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Christmas week, and then on New Year’s Eve a slate fell
NORA (Putting her hands over his mouth): Oh! Don’t say such
horrid things.
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(c) Give the adjacency pairs for the following :
(i) Greeting-greeting
(ii) Request-acceptance
(iii) Complaint-remedy
(iv) Request-refusal.
Nurse : At last I have found the box with the fancy dress.
Nora : Well, worse than that might happen. How are the
children ?
Nurse : The poor little souls are playing with their Christmas
presents.
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(e) Give one example for each of the following speech acts :
(i) Directive
(ii) Commissive
(iii) Assertive
(iv) Declarative
(f) Give two pairs of direct and indirect speech acts each.
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“What ?”
“I am not going.”
“Oh yes you are, even if I have to drag you by your hair
every step of the way.”
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were really happening. The maid, too, turned to her. “Please,
Didi, don’t make me go.” She gripped the handle of the wife’s
Looking only at the wife, the maid said, “She sends men to
the blue silk kimono that Richard had given me, and curl
and think of what we’d planned for that evening. Richard and
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(c) Thunder and lightning. It’s going to be quite a storm. You
You know then that when you return to the apartment you
You will not need it in your new life, the one you’re going
And a word comes to you out of the opening sky. The word
is like rain, and when you lift your face to it, like rain it
begin.
(a) But Gogol doesn’t move. He sits there, still struggling to absorb
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His father laughs softly, “You had nothing to do with it.”
His father shook his head, “Not yet, I’ll explain it to her
one day. In this country only your mother knows. And now
And suddenly the sound of his pet name, uttered by his father
has unwittingly embodied for years. “Is that what you think
his ribs, a habitual gesture that has baffled Gogol until now.
(b) The mention of the name pricks him, deflates him as it always
does.
“Right down the hall. She was here a couple of months. She
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He nods. This was something else she’d never told him. He
here, with Donald and Astrid, that she spent her darkest hour.
everyone can let his hair down a bit. At times, looking out
at the guests, he can’t help but think that two years ago
now surround him, watching her marry another man. The thought
himself that he is the one sitting beside her. The red Banarasi
sari and the gold had been bought two years ago for her
jewels from the safety deposit box, find the itemized list for
leftover.
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3. Answer any two of the following : [16]
(a) Show how the ‘beauty and the pain’ of the East-West encounter
Golden roofs.”
(a) Show how Gogol’s love affairs provide an insight into the continual
The Namesake.
(b) Show how Jhumpa Lahiri effectively portrays the conflict between
Namesake.
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5. Answer briefly any two of the following : [16]
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