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B.A. (English)/B.A. (English) Addl. DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2010. LITERARY FORMS Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks PART A (5 8 = 40 marks) Answer any FIVE questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. What is reflective poetry? Give examples. 2. Write a note on the evolution of sonnet as a literary genre. 3. Write a note on Elizabethan tragedies. 4. What is Absurd Drama? Illustrate. 5. Write a short note on the comedy of humours. 6. Trace the evolution of novel as a literary form. 7. Write on the popularity of the periodical essays in English. 8. Define short story with illustrations. PART B (4 15 = 60 marks) Answer any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks. 9. The ballad is probably the simplest form of narrative poetry and the epic most complicated Discuss. 10.Elaborate on the modern English drama. 11.Describe the Elizabethan comedies. 1

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12.The novel had become what the cinema had become in the 1920s and 1930s : a gateway into the world of pleasant dreams Elucidate. 13.Write on the various types of essays written in English in the twentieth century. 14.Consider the short story as a form of literature. 15.Write an essay on the characteristic features of Bacons essays.

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B.A. (English)/ B.A. (English) Additional DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2010. ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks SECTION A (5 8 = 40 marks) Answer any FIVE questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. Write a note on Black Death and its effects. 2. Write on the growth of art and literature in Elizabethan England. 3. Treat William Shakespeare as a sonneteer. 4. Write an appreciation of Donne's The Funeral. 5. What is Andrew Marvell's Plea to his coy Mistress? 6. Write on Bacon's idea on simulation. 7. Analyse the character of Edward II. 8. Treat utopia as a moral fable. SECTION B (4 15 = 60 marks) Answer any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks. 9. Write an essay on the Great Rebellion of 1642. 10.Give an appreciation of Thomas Nashe's A Litany in time of Plague. 2

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11.Consider Robert Herrich and George Herbert as poets with reference to the poems prescribed for you. 12.Analyse the prose style of Bacon in his essays. 13.Treat Ben Jonson as a writer of Comedy of Humours. 14.Analyse The shoemaker's Holiday as an Elizabethan comedy. 15.Enumerate the common qualities possessed by various writers (Poetry, Prose and Drama) during the Elizabethan age.

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B.A. (English)/B.A. (English) (Addl.) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2010. RESTORATION LITERATURE Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks SECTION A (5 8 = 40 marks) Answer any FIVE of the following questions. 1. Comment on the chief characteristics of the neo-classical movement. 2. Assess the verse satire written in the neo-classical period. 3. How does Dryden pay his respect to St. Cecilia? 4. Point out the significances of the Atticus passage in An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot. 5. Write on Collinss personification of evening in Ode to Evening. 6. How does the poem The Tiger deal with the problem of evil? 7. How does The Spectator mirror the superstitious beliefs of the people of the 18th century? 8. Bring out the significance of the title of the play, She Stoops to Conquer. SECTION B (4 15 = 60 marks)

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Answer any FOUR of the following questions. 9. Discuss the literary tendencies that dominated the Restoration literature. 10.Evaluate the themes of the poems, L Allegro and IL Penseroso. 11.Establish that Grays Elegy written in a country churchyard is an epitaph of the common man. 12.Examine Collins and Cowper as pre-Romantic poets. 13.The essays of Addison and Steele portray the life of their times- Amplify. 14.Joseph Andrews reflects the true spirit of comedy-Substantiate. 15.Consider The Rivals as an anti-sentimental comedy.

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B.A. (English)/B.A. (Eng) Addl. DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2010. ROMANTIC LITERATURE Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks SECTION A (5 8 = 40 marks) Answer any FIVE of the following questions. 1. What are the reasons for the popularity of ode in the Romantic poetry? 2. Comment on the main features of the historical novel in the Romantic age. 3. Why does Burns sing that his highland Mary shall live with in his bosom's core? 4. What does blake try to convey in the poem "The Tyger"?

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5. How does the sonnet "To Milton" wordsworth?

reveal the mind of the poet,

6. Why does shelley yearn for the skylark's world of unalloyed joy? 7. Bring out the note of sadness as revealed in "Ode to a nightingale". 8. Analyse the theme of the novel, Talisman. SECTION B (4 15 = 60 marks) Answer any FOUR of the following questions. 9. Examine the main characteristics of the Romantic poetry. 10.Gray's "Elegy written in a country churchyard" begins as a general elegy on the fate of mankind, but ends on a personal note-Amplify. 11.Wordsworth's "Ode : Intimations of Immortality" employs the child as a symbol of immanent reality Evaluate. 12.Discuss the significance of the theme of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner". 13.Trace the evolution of thought and emotion in shelley's "Ode to the west wind". 14.Consider The Vicar of Wakefield as a social novel. 15.Discuss the central theme of the novel, Emma.

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B.A. (English)/B.A. (English Addl.) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2010. VICTORIAN LITERATURE Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

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SECTION A (5 8 = 40 marks) Answer any FIVE questions given below each not exceeding 150 words. 1. Tennysons Ulysses reflects ideals of English life Explain. 2. Write a note on Hopkins sprung rhythm in The Wreck of the Deutschland. 3. Comment on Arnolds touchstone method. 4. Throw light on the plot of Great Expectations. 5. What does Byzantium represent in W.B. Yeats poem? 6. What is the central theme of Murder in the Cathedral? 7. What is meant by stream of consciousness technique? 8. Write a note on the character of Paul in Sons and Lovers. SECTION B (4 15 = 60 marks) Answer any FOUR essay type questions given below in 400 words each. 9. Sketch the character of old Maura in Riders to the Sea. 10.Write an essay on the social, religious and literary characteristics of the Victorian age. 11.Tess of the Durbervilles reveals Thomas Hardys revolt against the optimism of 19th century materialistic outlook Explain. 12.Poetry is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality Explain. 13.What does Matthew Arnold say about literary criticism in The Study of Poetry? 14.Bernard Shaw makes the reversal of the ordinary idea of character is it true in Pygmalion? 15.Consider Matthew Arnolds The Scholar Gypsy as an elegy.

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B.A. (English)/B.A. (English Addl.) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2010. INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks SECTION A (5 8 = 40 marks) Answer any FIVE of the following questions. 1. Give a brief summary of Vivekanandas address at the parliament of World Religions. 2. Examine Toru Dutts musings of her past in her poem Casuarina Tree. 3. Discuss Satyavan and Savithri as a symbolic poem. 4. How does Kamala Das reflect her personality in her poem An Introduction? 5. Give a short account of R.K. Narayans use of irony and humour in his novel The English Teacher. 6. Give a character sketch of the mother in Anita Desais novel Fire on the Mountain. 7. Write a short note on realism in the play Tughlaq. 8. Give a character sketch of Rakka in the novel Untouchable. SECTION B (4 15 = 60 marks) Answer any FOUR of the following questions. 9. What are Nehrus views on Indian culture and thought in his Discovery of India? 10.Write an essay on the symbolic undertones of the poem, Satyavan and Savithri.

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11.Discuss the realistic portrayal of the caste system in Mulk Raj Anands Untouchable. 12.Write an essay on the Indianness in R.K. Narayans novel The English Teacher. 13.Elaborate on the use Silence! The Court is in Session. of irony in the play

14.Give a summary of the poem The Heaven of Freedom. 15.What do you learn about the character of the mother in the poem Night of the Scorpion by Nissim Ezekiel?

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B.A. (English)/B.A. (English) Addl. DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2010. MODERN AND POST MODERN LITERATURE (2009 onwards) Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks SECTION A (5 8 = 40 marks) Answer any FIVE of the following questions. 1. How does Yeats describe the second coming of the Divine Child? 2. What are the virtues that Yeats wishes his daughter to possess? 3. Give an account of the journey of the Magi, as given by Eliot. 4. Why does the poet consider the citizen unknown? 5. Summarize the substance of the poem The Death of A Naturalist. 6. How does the death of the old Major bring about a revolution in the farm? 7. Justify the title of the play Waiting For Godot.

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8. Write an essay on the unhappy life of Rezia and Septimus in the novel Mrs. Dalloway. SECTION B (4 15 = 60 marks) Answer any FOUR of the following questions. 9. Consider Yeats as an Irish poet with reference to the poems prescribed. 10.How does Virginia Wolf glorify every moment in the novel Mrs. Dalloway? 11.Consider Animal Farm as an allegory. 12.Justify the title of the play A Dolls House. 13.The play Waiting For Godot was about hope. Discuss. 14.What do you know about Indira from her last address made at Bhubaneshwar? 15.Consider T.S. Eliot as a religious poet with reference to the poem The Journey Of The Magi.

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B.A. (English)/B.A. (English) (Addln.) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2010. AMERICAN AND COMMON WEALTH LITERATURES Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks SECTION A (5 8 = 40 marks) Answer any FIVE of the following. All questions carry equal marks. 1. Justify the title Mending Wall. 2. Who, according to Wallace Stevens, is the emperor of ice cream? 3. Comment on the theme of the poem Refugee Mother and Child.

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4. What is the answer given to the king by the harp? 5. What, according to Emerson, are the scholars duties? 6. How was Lauras life around the time of the Second World War? 7. How does Sadiku Prevail upon Sidi to go to Barokas Palace? 8. Why does Lizzie Borden want to live independently? SECTION B (4 15 = 60 marks) Answer any FOUR of the following. All questions carry equal marks. 9. Why does Whitman state that physic is an inalienable part of eternity and the soul? 10.What does Judith wright convey through the poem The harp and the king? 11.The American Scholar is a document of transcandentalism Discuss. 12.Trace the features of epic in the novel Voss. 13.Sketch the character of Henry Smithers. 14.Is Bertha really blissful? 15.Trace the post-colonial elements in The Lion and the Jewel.

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B.A. (English)/B.A. (English) Addl. DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2010. ENGLISH FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks PART A (5 8 = 40 marks)

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Answer any FIVE questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. (a) (i) Answer the following accordingly : They gifted me a watch. The pattern of the sentence is SV/SVO/SVIODO/SVC (ii) Shut the door. This is a sentence. (declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, imperative) (iii) I did not notice the change. (Add a question tag) (iv) No; I cannot solve this problem. (Frame a question to this answer) (b) Insert suitable put X. I articles. If no article is 1 (8 2 = 4) needed, (4 1 = 4)

want laptop computer, because laptop computers are essential for engineering graduate. laptop can do word processing, keep records, and compute numbers. laptop can also be used to send email and search Internet. People who own laptops say that they can save lot of time. Make notes on the following passage : (4)

2. (a)

Newspapers are the cheapest medium of information today. Also they are easily available to everybody. Newspapers are an important means of educating people. Those who read newspapers... become well-informed about current affairs. The Editorial page discusses important questions and problems of national and international importance. Letters to the Editors give us the views of the readers on various subjects. The sports page gives interesting information about games and sports. Newspapers also contain advertisements. These advertisements are very useful for businessmen and those who are in search of jobs. The matrimonial column helps people in finding the right kind of husband or wife. Thus newspapers are useful for almost everyone. (b) Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with the correct tense forms of the verbs given in brackets : (8 1 2 = 4 ) 11

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(i) (ii)

Man (be) mortal. I always (prefer) to travel by train.

(iii) He (search) for you since this morning. (iv) He was sleeping when the house (catch) fire. (v) Look, how beautifully she (paint). (suffer) a lot during the

(vi) They told me that they recent floods.

(vii) My family (settle) in Madurai in 1990. (viii) I (take) you to my farm house during next vacation. 3. Write a paragraph of 250 words on any ONE of the following topics : (8) (a) (b) Violence in the movies. Advantages and disadvantages of internet. (8)

4. Answer any ONE of the following : (a) (b)

Write a letter to your friend about your plan to visit his village during your semester holidays. Write a letter to your principal requesting him to issue a duplicate Identity card as you have lost the original one. (8)

5. Answer any ONE of the following : (a) (b)

As a newspaper correspondent, send a report to the editor on the conditions of the thatched school roofs in your area. You are the student secretary of your college and write a report on the Sports Day celebration held in your college to be published in the college magazine.

6. Fill in the blanks with suitable words from the TWO given in the brackets : (8) (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) You have to make arrangement. an (alternate, alternative)

He is my (confident, confidant). What he says is an (imaginary, imaginative) story. As a punishment, she has to ______(forgo, forego) the remuneration. You can use this sim card (livelong, lifelong).

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(f) (g) (h)

It (seams, seems) that we have lost the match. The new house is (spacious, specious). All your sufferings are (temporal, temporary). (8)

7. Answer the following : (a) (i) (ii) (b) One who believes in the brighter side of life. (pessimist, egotist, optimist, oculist) One who is self-satisfied. (complacent, conceited, snobbish, prudent) Choose the word which is correctly spelt. (i) (ii) aniversary annivesary

(iii) anniversary (iv) annuvasary. (c) Form opposites of the following words by adding suitable prefixes : (i) (ii) usual passionate

(iii) significant (iv) loyal. (d) Form negatives of the following words by adding suitable suffixes : (i) (ii) (e) time use

Rewrite the following in proper word order to form a meaningful sentence : to take have seriously this you issue.

(f)

Form negative of the following sentence : I finished all my work.

8. Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions : (8 1 = 8) (a) (b) (c) He succeeded hard work. The earth moves the sun. Be here exactly 8 O clock.

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(d) (e) (f) (g) (h)

Keep it the safe. He is missing last Monday. Divide this the students. He is searching a good job. What are you talking ? PART B (4 15 = 60 marks) Answer any FOUR of the following. All questions carry equal marks.

9. (a)

Rewrite voice :

the

following

sentences

in (4)

the

passive

(i) (ii)

We elected him the chairman. Finally we have lost the match.

(iii) Call the police. (iv) Did you see him crossing the railway track? (b) Rewrite the following in active voice : (i) (ii) Let the truth be spoken. He is repeatedly being warned about the danger. (4)

(iii) The office charge was handed over to him. (iv) The bus is missed by her regularly. (c) Change the following accordingly : (i) (4)

Most of the students are not so brilliant as Geetha. (into comparative an superlative degrees)

(ii)

Ooty is the most ideal place to spend your summer vacation. (into comparative and positive degrees)

(d)

Do the following transformation : (i) (ii) I considered Rama intelligent.

(3)

She liked what I suggested. (change into simple)

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(rewrite as negative without changing the meaning) (iii) Except Raju everybody has come. (replace except by only) 10.Make a prcis of the following passage and give a suitable title : (15) All of us are engaged in an unconscious endeavour to distract attention from the respect in which we are inferior to others and to emphasize the respect in which we believe ourselves to be superior. Each of us must feel superior in some respect; and we try, perhaps unconsciously, to convince the world that this is really the one thing that matters. If we are physically superior, then we believe and try to make others believe that physical fitness and strength are, after all, the real test of a man. If, on the other hand, we are physically inferior but intellectually superior, then we tend to disparage physical prowess and emphasize the importance of mental ability. If we are uneducated but (self-made), wealthy, well what is the use of education, anyhow? Theres far too much education and it only spoils a man. If on the contrary, we are educated, but unsuccessful in the business of life, then we never lose any opportunity of belittling business success. Generally, if we are successful at anything, we believe that success is won by industry, ability and character, while if we have been unsuccessful, we believe that success is a matter of luck! 11.Write an essay following : (a) (b) The power of media. of 400 words on any ONE of (15) the

Importance of communication skills.

12.Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below : (15) The word medieval means the middle age. It is used in history, therefore, to refer to that period which lies between the ancient and the modern periods and is quite literally the middle periods. How do we know when the ancient period ends and the medieval period begins? We have taken the eighth century A.D. as the beginning and the eighteenth century AD. as the end of the medieval period. Why? Because there were many changes taking place in Indian society in about the eighth century AD, and during this time these changes influenced many aspects of Indian society. They influenced the political and economic aspects, social laws, religion, language, art in short, almost everything. So we recognize that a new stage in Indian history had come about. We may say that this change took place around the eighth century.

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We have to be just a little vague about the date because just as a person does not change suddenly in one year, similarly societies also take time to change. Nor does everybody become influence by new ideas at the same time. Some of these changes in Indian history began earlier that the eighth century and in some part of India their influence was felt a little later. But taking a general view of things, we can say that the new phase took root in the eighth century. In the same way with the breakup of the Mughal empire and the coming of the British, the eighteenth century also saw many changes. So we refer to the century as the closing of the medieval period. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) (i) (j) Where do we find the word medieval? What does the word medieval infer? What, according to the writer, is the medieval period? How does the writer choose the beginning of the medieval period? Why does society take time to change? What does the writer say about change? How does the write arrive at a conclusion about the end of the medieval period? When did the break-up of Mughal empire happen? Name any one of the changes that happened in the eighteenth century? Give a suitable title to the passage. Give a one word substitute for the following :(10) Someone who knows a lot about the subject. Name shared by all the members of a family.

13.(a) (i) (ii)

(iii) A period of one hundred years. (iv) Something which is not original. (v) The act of killing oneself.

(vi) Study of ancient monuments and arts. (vii) The height of an object above sea level. (viii) One Who hates women. (ix) A doctor who is an expert in the treatment of eyes. (x) (b) A book giving information on all branches of knowledge.

Match the words in Column A and their meaning in Column B and rewrite : (10 1 2 = 5)

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Column A (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (vi) (vii) (viii) (ix) (x) Nimble Occult Sobriety Lump Benign Menace Abject Prolific Adage Proscribe (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)

Column B Outlaw Proverb Kind Threat Degraded Productive Agile Supernatural Self-control Single piece

14.Read each sentence to find out whether there is error in any underlined part. If any, write the alphabet of your choice next to the question number. If there is no error, then put E. (10 1 1 2 = 15) (a) (b) Entering the crowded store I saw two vaguely familiar faces. No error.

C AE B C

For her sake, as well as for Mohan, I hopped fervently that she might get the job. No error.

D
(c)

E B C E A B

The tallest among them expressed a keen desire to sit under the shade of a tree. No error.

D
(d) of this letter. No error. C D (e)

You are required to explain your conduct within two days of the receipt

Except Sudha our mother, all others A and possibly B C have agreed to come back soon. No error. D

E B C

(f)

One of the biggest industrial houses in Maharashtra are declaring a lock out. No error.

D
(g)

E A B

He is too healthy, remarked the Captain, and is best suited to an army career. No error.

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(h)

It was agreed that the speeches of their Prime Minister were better the ministers. No error.

B D E

(i)

No sooner had the party trapped at the summit been rescued, the storm

broke. No error. (j)

Having seen your advertisement in this mornings Times. I would like to apply to for it. No error

15.Use any TEN of the following in sentences of your own : (10 1 1 2 = 15) (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) (i) (j) (k) (l) Bear with Carry out Send for Show off Look forward to Run up Take to Ask for Wind up Make out Put up Live up to

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SECTION A (5 8 = 40 marks) Answer any FIVE questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. Explain the categories of reporters. 2. What are the characteristics of News? 3. Explain the process of picture editing. 4. Give your views on the importance of freedom for the press. 5. What are the guidelines for writing for Magazines? 6. What are the key functions of Mass Communication? 7. What is meant by interactive media? 8. How is Television used as a Multicultural broadcasting? SECTION B (4 15 = 60 marks) Answer any FOUR questions. All questions carry equal marks. 9. Define and point out the Modes of Communication in India. 10.What are the benefits of Digitization? 11.Explain the future of Mass Media. 12.Describe the different types of reporting. 13.Advertisement and Journalism are twin sisters. Explain. 14.What are the impacts of Mass Media on Society? 15.Explain the areas of concern with Television.

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