JAIPUR NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, JAIPUR

School of Distance Education & Learning

Internal Assignment No. 1

MEG-101
Paper Code: MEG-101
Paper Title: MODERN ENGLISH USAGE PHONETICS AND LANGUAGE
Last Date of submission: Max. Marks: 30

SECTION-A
\ (Word limits 50-100) – 10 marks
I. Construct sentences with the following patterns:
a) S+V+O+O
b) S+V+C
c) S+V+O+C
d) S+V+O+A
e) S+V+A
II. under sine the different constituent parts of the following sentences and label each part S,
V, O, C or A:
a) She sleeps every afternoon.
b) New subject may require a different form of the verb.
c) They like rice.
d) George became sick last night.
e) The teacher is here.
III. What do you understand by phonetics and phonology? Explain in brief.
IV. What is the difference between phonemic transcription and phonetic transcription? Give
examples.
V. Explain the finite clause with examples.\
VI. Say whether the sounds in the following words are nasal or oral:
i. Knit ii. Sing iii. Uncle
iv. Customer v. Paste
SECTION-B (Word limits 500) ( 4 x 5 = 20 Marks)

Q2. Write an essay of about 300 words on any one of the topics given below:
a) Health and how to preserve it.
b) Technical and Vocational Education.
c) Manners Make the Man.
d) What will you be?
Q3. Transcribe the following words:
a) School vi. Judge
b) Chair vii. Bring
c) Shine viii. Pale
d) Wing ix. Wrist
e) Blink x. Phone
Q4. Write down the meaning of the following idioms and construct sentences using those idioms.
a) To add insult to injury.
b) Up in arms.
c) To bell the cat.
d) A bitter pill to swallow.
e) As black as thunder.
Q5. Write down one synonym for each word:
i. Abuse ii. Admit iii. Afet
iv. Deny v. Cause vi. Bold
vii. Calm viii. Candid ix. Erstary
x. Freedom
 JAIPUR NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, JAIPUR
School of Distance Education & Learning
Internal Assignment No. 1
M.A. (English)

Paper Code: MEG– 102

Paper Title: Literary Theory
Last date of submission: Max. Marks: 30

Note: Question No. 1 is of short answer type and is compulsory for all the
students. It carries 1 Mark. (50-100 Words)

Q. 1. Answer all the questions:

i Write short note on
a. Metaphysical poetry b. Satire
ii. Bacon’s essays are a storehouse of wisdom. Discuss with reference is any one of the essays Prescribed
for your syllabus.
iii. What does Samuel Johnson write about Shakespeare’s comic scenes?
iv. What exactly is the battle which is discussed in the battle of books?
v. Write a short summary of “The Sunne Rising” and “The Relique.”
vi.Comment on the statement “Revenge is a kind of wild justice Discuss the reasons behind
God’s Degradation of Lucifer.
vii. Do you agree with the fact that King Lear made a mistake by revealing his will to his
Daughters How?
viii. Elucidate the role of music in Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.”
ix. The “Toilet Scene” has been beautifully replicated in the “Rape of the Lock’. Discuss briefly.
x. Write a short summary of “Samson Agonists” by Milton.
NOTE: Answer any four questions. Each question carries 5 Marks. (5*4=20 Marks) (500
Words).
Q. 2 Discuss Absalom and Acidophil as a political allegory
Q. 3 What are some of the images that recur through the Rape of the lock. Examine their Significance.
Q. 4 What advice has been enumerated upon by Bacon in his essay “of Truth” and “of Death”?
Q.5 Evaluate the Duchess of Malfi as a tragic creation of Webster.
Q.6 Discuss the role of female characters in Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” and “King Lear”.
Q.7 Do you consider Lucifer as the hero or anti-hero in Paradise Lost? Discuss.
 JAIPUR NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, JAIPUR
School of Distance Education & Learning
Internal Assignment No. 1

M.A. (English)
Paper Code: MEG– 103
Paper Title: Literary Theory
Last date of submission: Max. Marks: 30

Note: Question No. 1 is of short answer type and is compulsory for all the
students. It carries 1 Mark. (50-100 Words)

Q. 1. Answer all the questions:

I. What are the chief characteristics of Romantic Literature?

II. Bring out the theme of Coleridge “Kubla Khan”.
III. Why William Colleing wishes to visit a love heath or an ancient ruin?
IV. What is the significance of the title of John Keats “Ode to Grecian Urn”?
V. Define any two of the following:
i. Ode ii. Ballad iii. Elegy
VI. Discuss the following lines with reference to the context.
Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea!
And never a saint took pity on
My soul in agony
VII. Write a short note on “Scholarly Ignorance” as discussed by Hazliff in his essay. On the
Ignorance of the learned.”
VIII. What is the central theme of Thomas Gray’s poem “Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard
IX. “Adonais” is Shelley’s elegy on the death of John Keats”.Discuss.
X. Bring out the qualities which make Collin’s “Ode to Evening” one of his greatest practical
Achievements.
NOTE: Answer any four questions. Each question carries 5 Marks. (4*5=20 Marks) (500
Words).
Q2. Write a critical appreciation of Thomas Gray’s poem “Ode on Distant Prospect of Eton College.”
Q3. “Emotion recollected in tranquality.” Illustrate this view of poetry from Book I of “The Prelude”.
Q4. “In the great Odes, Keats exploses the relation between pleasure and pain, happiness and Melancholy,
imagination and reality, with brilliant poetic force.” Discuss this statement in the Light of keats’s “Ode to
Melancholy.”
Q5. How does coleridge use the supernatural in such a way in “The Ancient Mariner” to create a Willing
suspension of disbelief?
Q6. Comment on Sheridon’s art of characterization in his the Rivals.
 JAIPUR NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, JAIPUR
School of Distance Education & Learning
Internal Assignment No. 1
M.A. (English)
Paper Code: MEG– 104
Paper Title: Literary Theory
Last date of submission: Max. Marks: 30

Note: Question No. 1 is of short answer type and is compulsory for all the
students. It carries 1 Mark (50-100 Words)
Q. 1. Answer all the questions:

I. What does Walter Pater argue in “The Post script?”

II. Victorian Age is characterized by propriety of manners. Comment.
III. Charles Dickens is known for his character creation. Comment on his characterization.
IV. What is the importance of the title “Wuthering Heights?”
V. Give your understanding of the character “Jude” from the novel, “Jude the Obscure.”
VI. What is a sonnet? Discuss the form.
VII. What is Hopkins’s idea about the beauty of nature?
VIII.Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the dramatic monologue from.
IX. What are the key prints of the essay, “The study of poetry?”
X. What is the central idea of Elizabeth Barrett’s, Sonnet No. 51, “I thank all who have loved me.”
NOTE: Answer any four questions. Each question carries 5 Marks. (4*5=20 Marks) (500
Words).
Q.2 Describe the relationship between art and morality in Browning’s poetry.
Q.3 what are Hopkins’s view about the presence of God in the natural world?
Q.4 what are the recurrent images in Hopkins’s poetry?
Q.5 critically comments upon Arnold’s ideals of disinterestedness in criticism.
Q.6 Make a character sketch of Jack Worthing, Lady Bracknell and Gwendolen Fairfax.