PSG COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCE, COIMBATORE.

Department of English (SF) 

Odd Semester - 2021-2022
II YEAR - Developing English Language Skills throughLiterature
Composition II
DATE: 13.12.2021 Sub.code:18EU03 MARKS: 50
SECTION – A 
PART I (any two) 
I. Annotate the following. (4x3=12)
1. I came here for a photograph, a picture, something which –which bad though it
seems—would have looked like me. I wanted something that would depict my face as
Heaven gave it to me, humble through the gift may have been.
1. Fix the context. 
2. Why did the speaker want a picture like him?
3. What is the gift from Heaven?
 
2. ​It’s easy to rob a greedy man because he deserves to be robbed. It’s easy to rob a
rich man because he can afford to be robbed. But it’s difficult to rob a poor man,
even one who really doesn’t care if he’s robbed.
  1. Fix the context. 
  2. Who is easy to rob and why? 
 3. Why is it difficult to rob a poor man?

3.That’s the one. It is our little plan that at the first meeting she should pass herself off as
the princess—a harmless ruse, of which you will find a frequent record in the history
books.
 1. Fix the context.
2. Who is referred to as ‘a harmless ruse’ ? 
3. What do we find in history books?

PART–II (any two)

4. If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph or Disaster
And treat those imposters just the same;
1. Fix the context. 
2. Who are imposters? 
3. Why should we treat the imposters the same?

5. Most of all, I want to relearn

How to laugh, for my laugh in the mirror
Shows only my teeth like a snake’s bare fangs! 
  1. Fix the context. 
2. What does the poet want to relearn?
3. How does the poet’s smile appear? 
6. If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’.
1. Fix the context. 
2. Who says to ‘Hold on’? 
3. When do we have to hold on?
 SECTION – B 
PART I (any two) 
II. Write Short notes on the following. (4X2=8)
7. How did Deepak justify robbing Arun?
8. Why did Arun want to befriend Deepak?
9. How was the picture taken? 
10. What was the narrator’s reaction to the photo? 
 PART II (any two) 
11. Discuss why is truth important to Rudyard Kipling? 
12.What are the virtues worthy of praise shared by Kipling?
13. How does Gabriel Okara create a sense of regret in the poem? 
14. What does Okara say about how people change over the years? 

SECTION C 
PART I (any one) 
III. Write an essay on the following. (2X8=16)
15.Enumerate the humorous instances described by Leacock in ‘With the Photographer’. 
16. Write an essay on Ruskin Bond’s ‘The Thief’.  
PART II(any one)
17. What is the theme of the story “A Service of Love”?
18. ‘You poor Schatz’. Discuss Why did the father feel sorry for his son?
SECTION D
IV. Write an essay on the following. (1x8=8)
19. Write an essay on the beautiful love story of Prince Simon and the
Princess Camilla.

PART III
IV. Fill in the blanks with correct prepositions. (3x1=3) 
20. The dogs ran ………the road causing great trouble.
21. My friend and I are attending the offline classes …… August. 
22. Tomorrow, the manager meets his clients ……… 6.00 O’clock …..the evening. 

V. Transform the following sentences as directed in the brackets: (3x1=3)

24. On seeing his friend after many years, Ram felt elated.( into Compound)
25. He possesses enormous wealth, yet he is not happy. (into Complex)
26. He is so weak that he cannot carry the box. (into simple)

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