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ELECTIVE COLTRSN TN EI{GT,ISH(BEGE-10s)

ASSIGNMEI\T{S-or July 2812 And January 2013 Sessions}

UI\DERSTAI{I}NG PROSEBEGE-105

Indira Gandhi National Open Universityh{aida* Garhi,l{ew Delhi -- 110 058

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Elective Course in English (BEGE - 105)IINDERSTANDING PROSEProgramme: BDPCourse Code: BEGE - 105/2012

Dear Students,You will have one assignment for the Elective Course in English (BEGE, - 05), which willbe a 'futor Marked Assignment (TMA) and will carry 100 marks. It will be based on blocksIto7.Airns: This assignment is concemed mainly with assessing your application and yourunderstanding of the course rnaterial. You are not required to reproduce chunks ofinformation from the course material but to use the skills of critical appreciation that yournay have acquired during the course of study. This assignment airns to teach as well as toassess your performance.trns*ructions: Before attempting the questions please read the following instructionscarefully.1. Read the detailed instructions about the assignments given in the Programme Guidefor Elective Courses.2. Write your Enrolment Number, Name, Full Address and Date on the top right cornerofthe first page ofyour response sheet(s).3. \l,/rite the Course Titie., Assignment Number and the Name of'the Sfudy Centre you

are attached to in the centre ofthe first page ofyour response sheet(s).The top of the first page of your response sheet should look like this:

ENROLMENT NO:NAME:ADDRESS :COURSE TITLE :ASSIGNMENT NO:STUDY CENTRE : DATE:

4. Use only foolscap size paper for your response and tag all the pages carefully.5. Write the relevant question number with each answer.5. You should rvrite in your own handwriting.7. Submission: The completed assignment should be sent to the Coordinator of theStudy Centre ailotted to you by 31't March 2013{For July, 2012 session) and 30thSepternber,20l3 (For January, 20tr3 session). Please read the instructions given inyour Programme Guide.

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Now read the following guidelines carefully before answering the questions.GUIDELINES FOR TMAS

You will find it usefilto keep the following points in mind:1. Planning: Read the questions carefully. Go through the units on which they arebased. Make some points regarding each question and then rearrange these in alogical order. And please write the answers in your own words. Do not reproduce

passages from the units.2. Organisation: Be a little more selective and analytic before drawing up a roughoutline of your answer. In an essay-type question, give adequate attention to yourintroduction and conclusion. The introduction must offer your brief interpretation ofthe question and how you propose to develop it. The conclusion must summariseyour rcsponse to the question. In the course of your answer, you may like to make

references ro other texts or critics as this will add some depth to your analysis.Make sure that your answer:

a) is logical and coherent;b) has clear connections befween sentences and paragraphs;c) is written corectly giving adequate consideration to your expression, styleand presentation;d) does not exceed the number of words indicated in your question.

3. Presentation: Once you are satisfied with your answers, you can write down thefinal version for submission, writing each answer neatly and underlining the pointsyou wish to ernphasise.You may be aw,are that you need to submit your assignments hef'ore you can appear forthe Term End Exams. Please remember to keep a copy of your completed assignment,just in case the one you submitted is lost in transit.Good luok w,ith your work

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Elective Course in EnglishLTNDER.STANDING PROSE (BEGE * 105)Based on Blocks l-7

Maxirnum Marks: 100Prngramme: BDP

Answer All Ouestions1. Comment on the dorninant variety of prose (narrative, expository or descriptive) presentin each of the following passages. Write a brief critical appreciation of each passage in

about 250 words each:Waking to a murmer of voices that seemed to be coming from a distance, the man satup in his bed" Bleary-eyed he looked at his watch. It was seven in the morning. Hehad slept for seven hours in this strange looking hut where he had taken refuge atmidnight from the fury of the snow-storrn. He could hear the voices again, louderthis time. Quickly wearing his coat, the man rushed to open the door. A group ofaround fifteen viliagers stood outside iooking terrified and sFrell-shocked at hissudden appearance. In no time at all, they had turned on their heels and were runningdown the hill. He called after them but to no avaii. Confused at the srrangebehaviour of the villagers, the man re-entered the hut and sarv in ufier disbelief twofeet sticking out from under the bed. A closer look toid him wtriy the group oi menhad taken to their heels. i-{e had been sleeping all night in the company of a dead bodylying right there under his bed.The Blue Nile, or Abay Wenz as it is known locally, carves a semi-circular gorge inthe Ethiopian plateau, a deep trench that first heads south, then cur\ies west aneieventually turns northwords as the river spills out onto the hot plains of the Sudan"Deceptively peaceful at its origin, the water leaving Lake Tana wili drop 1800 rneterson its journey tc the sea. After only 40 kilometers, the river thunders over a voicanicshelf, at Tis Isaat Falls. Frorn here on it tears and boils aiong too iast for any l;oat tosail upon the surface. For the next 400 kiiometers, the great river lies hidden in agorge that grows to one and a half kilometers deep and 24 kiiometers from rim to rirn.After exiting the gorge, the Blue Nile meanders across the Sudanese plains. Fartheron, it meets the White Nile at Khartoum. Named f,or the colour of their respectivewaters, these two great rivers flow side by side for many kilometers, mixing in sio"'rrspiralling swirls, a sight Arab poets have called the longest kiss in history.The problems of ageing can be properly understood only if we approach them itom amuitipliciry of angles - biolc,gicai, psychologicai and soeiotrogical. Biologists andphysicians work to counter or even eliminate the degenerative diseases, their targetbeing the extension of the healthy human lifespan to 1i0 years or even more.Psychologists attempt to alleviate the wide variety of depressive illnesses thatcommonly afflict the elderly. Social gerontologists work to make people's old age ascomfortable and pleasant as possihle. However, aii of these endeavours are less thanfully effective if they are not carried out in conjunction with each other. Although rhevarious symptoms of ageing appear separately in tenns of the biologicat,psychological and social well-being of the individual, tkrere is generally an interactionamong th.ese various cornponents. Therefore, if lve are to find sotrutions to the many

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problems of ageing, we need the cooperation of scientists from a number of differentdisciplines.

(10x3:30)2. Discuss the significance of the title of Anton Chekhov's story "Misery".

(10)3. Comment on The Binding Vine as a stream of consciousness novel. (10)4. What devices does Charles Lamb use to produce humour in his essay 'A Dissertation

Upon Roast Pig'? (10)5. Comment upon Nehru's distinctive style of letter writing with reference to his letter "The

Quest of Man." (10)6. Explain in detail the features of Dina Mehta's prose style as seen in the short story "TheOther'Woman." (10)7. Write short notes on the following:i) Rise and development of the short story.ii) Aspects of a novel. (10x2:20)