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DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

KAHM UNITY WOMEN’S COLLEGE, MANJERI

I SEMESTER (CBCSS-UG) DEGREE INTERNAL EXAMINATION, November 2023

ENG1B01 INTRODUCING LITERATURE

Time: 1 Hour Maximum: 30 marks

SECTION A

Answer any five questions. Each question carries 2 marks.

1. Identify the meanings and use any two of the given phrasal verbs in meaningful
sentences:
put on, called off, break down, check in
2. Identify and explain the figure of speech in the given lines:
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
3. Define the term “double marginalization” in reference to Maya Angelou’s essay
“Graduation”
4. What does the phrase “SHE COULD NOT CHARM HIM” imply.
5.
6.
(10 marks)
SECTION B

Answer any two questions. Each question carries 5 marks.

7. Read the sentence below from Rudyard Kipling's short story "The Sing-Song of Old
Man Kangaroo". Is the sentence hypotactic or paratactic? Why?
“He was grey and he was woolly, and his pride was inordinate: he danced on a
sandbank in the Middle of Australia, and he went to the Big God Ngong."
8. Figure out the ideas conveyed through the closure of George Orwell's story “A
Hanging” as:
“We all had a drink together, native and european alike, quite amicably. The dead man
was hundred yards away”.
9.

(10 marks)
SECTION C

Answer any one. Each question carries 10 marks.

10.
 11. Read the given poem and write an analysis focusing on the questions below in well
organised paragraphs:
*Does the speaker in the poem feel marginalised and isolated? Why?
*Why does the poet use the image of the identity card? What is its importance in the poem?
*What do you understand about the feelings of the speaker when you read the poem?
In my student days
a girl came laughing.
Our hands met kneading
her rice and fish curry.
On a bench we became
a Hindu-Christian family.
I whiled away my time
reading Neruda's poetry;
and meanwhile I misplaced
my identity card.
I noticed, she said
returning my card:
the account of your stipend
is entered there in red.
These days I never look at
a boy and a girl lost in themselves.
They will depart after a while.
I won't be surprised even if they unite.
Their identity cards
won't have scribblings in red.

(10 marks)