MAY 2019 P/ID 36501/PENA

Time : Three Hours Maximum : 100 marks

PART A — (10 2 = 20 marks)

Answer the following questions in

about 50 words each.

1. Name the places where the Knight has fought.

2. Who is a Prioress?

3. What does the poet convey through the images of the dove and eagle?

4. How helpful are conceits in a metaphysical poem?

5. How do furies punish the sinners in hell?

6. Why is Alexandro afraid to die?

7. What does Ferdinand see in his imagination?

8. Why do parents keep their joys and sorrows a secret?

9. Who was Solomon?

10. What does Jesus do at Capernaum?

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PART B — (5 6 = 30 marks)

Answer ALL questions in about 250 words each.

11. (a) What do we get to know about the profession of doctors from Chaucer's portrait?

Or

(b) Explain 'eye beams'.

12. (a) What is a Phoenix riddle?

Or

(b) Describe how the nymphs respond to the sight of the swans.

13. (a) How does the Spanish King pacify both Horatio and Lorenzo.

Or

(b) Consider how far Gaveston is responsible for his own tragedy.

14. (a) Explain the myth of Hercules.

Or

(b) What are the first and second commandments.

15. (a) Describe More's relationship with King Henry VIII.

Or

(b) Write a note on the beauty of creation.

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PART C — (5 × 10 = 50 marks)

Answer ALL questions in about 500 words each.

16. (a) Attempt a critical survey of the work done in Solomon's house.

Or

(b) Discuss the main pleasures of the Utopians.

17. (a) Bring out the development of English Prose upto Bacon's age.

Or

(b) Bring out the literary qualities of 'The Gospel according to St. Mark'.

18. (a) Bring out the use of irony and significance of the subplot in 'The Changeling'.

Or

(b) Elaborate on the relevance of 'The Alchemist' to our times.

19. (a) "Edward's tragedy is also the tragedy of Mortimes". Discuss.

Or

(b) Bring out the similarities between 'The Spanish Tragedy' and 'Hamlet'.

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20. (a) Consider "Canonisation" as a Metaphysical poem

Or

(b) Explain how love and nature are treated in the sonnets of Wyatt and Surrey.

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MAY 2019 P/ID 36503/PENC

Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

SECTION A — (10 2 = 20 marks)

Answer the following questions in 50 words each.

1. How does Wordsworth call ‘ Tintern Abbey’.

2. What type of poem is My Last Duchess?

3. What is the complete title of the poem Christabel?

4. Name the other poem of Tennyson in which Ulysses is the hero.

5. Name the poem that is opposite to Infant Sorrow.

6. What kind of a play is Importance of Being Earnest?

7. Why does Lamb feel guilty whenever he remembers John Lamb?

8. What are ‘sweet’ and ‘Light’ to Arnold?

9. Name the three poets who are called as ‘National poets’ by Carlyle.

10. What is the real name of George Eliot?

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SECTION B — (5 × 6 = 30 marks)

Answer the following questions in 250 words each.

11. (a) How does Shelley view the life of the bird and that of man in Skylark?

Or

(b) How does Blake view Evil?

12. (a) Narrate Christabel’s encounter with Geraldine.

Or

(b) Describe the fantacy world of the Damozel.

13. (a) Why does Ruskin compare the rich to Judas?

Or

(b) Who knocks at the gates of Macbeth and why?

14. (a) Describe Hazlitt’s acquaintance with Wordsworth and Coleridge.

Or

(b) Why does Carlyle call Shakespeare ‘Priceless’?

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15. (a) How does Scott describe twelfth century England in Ivanhoe?

Or

(b) Discuss how Tess falls a viction of gender bias.

SECTION C — (5 × 10 = 50 marks)

Answer the following questions in 500 words each.

16. (a) How does Wordsworth become ‘sublime’ and a ‘living soul’ when he visits Tintern Abbey during his second visit?

Or

(b) How does Keats establish the permanence of art and the fleeing nature of human life in Grecian Urn?

17. (a) Describe the human qualities of the Duchess which are in contrast to that of the Duke.

Or

(b) Explain how Ulysses faces and convinces his reluctant men to ‘travel on and on’.

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18. (a) How does Shelley glorify the courage and wisdom of Prometheans?

Or

(b) Explain briefly about what are ‘sweet and Light’ for Arnold?

19. (a) Discuss Lady Bracknell as a typical class conscious Aristocratic lady of the Victorian period.

Or

(b) Compare and contrast the characters of Jack and Algernon.

20. (a) Discuss the treatment of pathos and humour by Lamb found in his essays prescribed for you.

Or

(b) How does Emily Bronte show that ‘ love can be self – destructive’?

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MAY 2019 P/ID 36505/PENE

Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

PART A — (10 2 = 20 marks)

Answer ALL the questions in about 50 words each.

1. What does the ‘technique of sincerity’ refer to?

2. Comment on the language used by the bee and spider.

3. How has English education been beneficial to journalism?

4. How does politics influence the media?

5. What is the quality of articles that appear in magazines?

6. What “tone of voice” does a formal report have?

7. What is redundancy?

8. What are the formative influences on the author?

9. How do you identify the topic sentence of a paragraph?

10. Write a note on the Appendices in a Technical Report.

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PART B — (5 × 6 = 30 marks)

Answer the following in about 250 words each.

11. (a) Write a note on “The Rise of New Criticism”.

Or

(b) Write a note on Feminine rhyme.

12. (a) Describe briefly the growth of Journalism in India.

Or

(b) Describe the Code of Practice enunciated for the media.

13. (a) Describe how to spot grammatical errors while proofreading.

Or

(b) Explain collaborative reading.

14. (a) Write a note on the importance of symbols in advertising.

Or

(b) How will you begin, develop and conclude a review?

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15. (a) How is technical writing different from creative writing?

Or

(b) Describe the features of a user manual.

PART C — (5 × 10 = 50 marks)

Answer the following in about 500 words each.

16. (a) Analyze the emerging perspectives on Practical Criticism after the 1940’s and 50’s.

Or

(b) What are the aspects of drama taken up for the analyzes in practical criticism.

17. (a) Give an account on the origin and development of mass communication.

Or

(b) Elucidate the process of collecting, writing and editing news.

18. (a) Bring out the salient features of proof reading and copy editing.

Or

(b) How will you analyze an advertisement?

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19. (a) What stages does a report go through before the first draft is approved?

Or

(b) Describe the various methods for developing a paragraph.

20. (a) Write an essay on the organization of a technical report.

Or

(b) Illustrate the requisite qualities of a cover letter with a model.

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MAY 2019 P/ID 36507/PENG

Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

PART A — (10 2 = 20 marks)

Answer the following questions in about 50 words each.

1. What does the Book of genesis speak of?

2. Mention the three branches into which the primitive Germanic split. Where is the evidence found?

3. What did Jacob Grimm find out?

4. What does the articulatory system comprise of?

5. How are vowel sounds produced?

6. Define ‘Stricture’.

7. What are free Morphemes?

8. Correct the following sentences :

(a) I watched him fell

(b) Six miles are a long distance.

9. Distinguish between bidialectal and bilingual.

10. What does the term ‘code switching’ refer to?

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PART B — (5 6 = 30 marks)

Answer the following questions in about 250 words each.

11. (a) Write on the Indo – European family and the position of the English languages in it.

Or

(b) How did Norman French and Anglo – Saxon combine to result in Middle English?

12. (a) Explain with examples the process of syncopation.

Or

(b) What is the difference between formal meaning and referential meaning?

13. (a) What are pure vowels? Describe with suitable illustrations.

Or

(b) Write a note on the nasal sounds.

14. (a) Attempt an IC analysis of the following sentences :

(i) The little girl ate the apple. (ii) A hard - working student scores high

marks in the class room. Or

(b) List out where the definite article is used with illustration.

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15. (a) What is socio – linguistics?

Or

(b) List the sources of variation in an individual’s speech.

PART C — (5 10 = 50 marks)

Answer the following questions in about 500 words each.

16. (a) Attempt an essay on the foreign influences on the English Vocabulary.

Or

(b) Elaborate on the spelling changes during the Middle English period.

17. (a) Explain the changes in pronunciation that took place during the Renaissance.

Or

(b) Trace the evolution of Standard English.

18. (a) Explain the role of the speech organs in the production of speech.

Or

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(b) Transcribe the following sentences :

(i) I am in trouble and I want you to help me.

(ii) I was in the hospital the whole day.

(iii) Let us go to the Commissioner Office.

(iv) She went to see the Principal.

(v) It is a hot day today.

19. (a) Explain and illustrate morphas and allomorphs.

Or

(b) Write short note on Homophony, homonymy and polysemy with examples.

20. (a) Write on the different aspects of discourse analysis with examples.

Or

(b) Make a comparative analysis of formal linguistics and sociolinguistics.

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MAY 2019 P/ID 36508/PENH

Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

PART A — (10 2 = 20 marks)

Answer the following in about 50 words each.

1. What is the essential idea in emphasizing the three engineering marvels by Whitman?

2. What is the tone of the poem Success is Counted Sweetest’ by Emily Dickinson?

3. How long is the play “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”?

4. Who are the two main characters in Night Mother”?

5. Why is Huckleberry Finn so important?

6. Why was the color purple banned?

7. What is the dream of a Martian woman?

8. Why is self reliance so important?

9. What is being self reliant?

10. How many days does the old man spend at sea?

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PART B — (5 × 6 = 30 marks)

Answer the following in about 250 words each

11. (a) How do the changes in rhyme in stanza 2 affect the way you read Dickinson’s poem?

Or

(b) What does the grassy road represent in the road not taken?

12. (a) Sketch the character of Mary Tyrone.

Or

(b) How does Blanche’s fascination with teenage boys relate to her decline and fall?

13. (a) What significance do the lions on the beach have for the old man?

Or

(b) Would you characterize The Martian Chronicles’ as a work of science fiction? How is it when compared to other works within this genre.

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14. (a) What are some examples of self reliance?

Or

(b) How does Chapter I of ‘Walden’ chapter cover the basics of universal survival?

15. (a) Consider “Mother Tongue” is a personal essay.

Or

(b) Why does lshmael include so many digressions in his narrative in “Moby Dick”?

PART C — (5 × 10 = 50 marks)

Answer the following in about 500 words each.

16. (a) Critically analyze “Daddy”.

Or

(b) Comment on Amiri Baraka’s “An agony as Now”.

17. (a) Compare and contrast Blanche and Stella in “A Streetcar Named Desire”.

Or

(b) Discuss O’Neill’s use of language in the play. How do the characters’ different attitudes find expression in the words they use to describe themselves?

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18. (a) How is the Scarlet Letter’ embodied by Pearl?

Or

(b) Compare and contrast the three major narrators “The Sound and Fury”.

19. (a) What techniques does Twain use to create sympathy for his characters, in particular, Jim? Are these techniques effective?

Or

(b) Why does James choose not to show us the more positive first year of Isabel and Osmond’s marriage? Why do you think he largely ignores the issue of the child she had and lost?

20. (a) Explain the three main divisions in “Self Reliance”.

Or

(b) Summarize “God’s Lonely Man”.

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MAY 2019 P/ID 36510/PENK

Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

PART A — (10 × 2 = 20 marks)

Answer the following in about 50 words each:

1. Why is Panini considered the precursor to modern formal language theory?

2. How would you explain Rasa?

3. Why do critics criticize the honours given to past authors?

4. Name some of Arnold’s well – known poems.

5. How does Eliot define tradition?

6. What does the Beadle tell the narrator?

7. How will women writers use poetry?

8. What is the centripetal approach?

9. How is history useful in studying literature?

10. Highlight the characteristic features of successful poetry.

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PART B — (5 × 6 = 30 marks)

Answer the following in about 250 words each:

11. (a) Discuss the several consequences of history’s realignment with its object of study.

Or

(b) According to Barthes, how does language acquire the primary importance in a work of creative writings?

12. (a) Examine Lacan’s elaboration of Freud’s concepts.

Or

(b) Differentiate between Abstract and Concrete potentialities.

13. (a) How does woolf use Mary Carmichaels novel to highlight the characteristics of modern women’s writing?

Or

(b) What, according to Arnold,are the dangers of historic and personal estimates? Discuss.

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14. (a) How is the principle of pleasure connected to metre?

Or (b) How does Wordsworth argue for prosaic

poetry?

15. (a) Give an account of Shakespeare’s age as described by Dr.Johnson.

Or (b) What are Dante’s significant contributions to

literary criticism?

PART C — (5 × 10 = 50 marks) Answer the following in about 500 words each.

16. (a) Write an essay on the two main Roman critics.

Or (b) Substantiate the view that “ Tradition and

the Individual Talent” is an unofficial manifesto of Eliot’s critical creed.

17. (a) How does Woolf bring out the plight of a woman living in the Elizabethan times?

Or (b) Discuss Frye’s archetypal approach as

making a transition from New Criticism to Structuralism.

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18. (a) Explain in detail, how Trilling establishes the importance of the historical sense.

Or (b) Explain how Brooks uses Donne’ s poem to

illustrate the New Critical concepts.

19. (a) Elucidate the arguments Lukacs puts forward against the ideology of Modernism.

Or (b) Analyze the ways in which Lacan proves that

the unconscious is structured like language.

20. (a) How does said’ s ‘Orientalism’ contribute further to post- colonial studies?

Or (b) How does Barthes prove that creative

writing exists only on the strength of the reader and not the writer?

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