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Netaji Subhas Open University B.D.P. English EEG-1 Assignment December 2016 & June 2017 Solved

Netaji Subhas Open University B.D.P. English EEG-1 Assignment December 2016 & June 2017 Solved


B.D.P 1st Year
EEG- 1

Answer any two of the following questions : 20 × 2 = 40 


a)Trace the development of Anglo-Saxon prose. 

 

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b)Bring out the features of epic poetry in Beowulf. 

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 c)Show how English Vocabulary was enriched by the French influence. 

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 d)Write a short essay on Old English religious poetry. 

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 2. Answer any three of the following questions : 10 × 3 = 30 

 a)Write a short essay on the Middle English romances. 

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 b)Show how ‘The Second Shepherds’ play reflects medieval life.

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 c)Show how The Bible has enriched English Vocabulary. 

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d)The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales reflects contemporary life. Discuss.

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 e)Assess the Latin influence on the English language. 

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 f)Describe Beowulf’s fight with Grendel.

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 3. Answer any two of the following questions : 5 × 2 = 10 
a) Write a short note on The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

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b) Show the importance of the Norman Conquest in English literature and language.

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c) Write a short note on Middle English prose. 

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d) Comment on the contemporaries of Chaucer. 

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 SECTION - B 
4. Phonemically transcribe any three of the following words & put the stress mark after transcription : 3 + 3 

England, song, mother, student, teacher, blackbird. 

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5. Choose any two vowel phonemes and any two consonant phonemes which occur in the following words and describe them : 1 × 4 

mother, song, Scotland, cook, teacher.

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6. Scan any one of the following extracts, find the main metre and metrical variations, if any : 5 

a) I listen’d, motionless and still ; 
 And as I mounted up the hill, 
The music in my heart I bore, 
Long after it was heard no more.
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 b) Souls of poets dead and gone
What Elysium have ye known —
Happy field or mossy cavern — 
Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern ? 

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7. Identify and explain the figures of speech in any one of the following extracts : 5 

a) O for a beaker full of the warm South, 
Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, 
With beaded bubbles winking at the brim 
And purple-stained mouth ;

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 b) O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being, 
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead 
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, 
Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, 
Pestilence-stricken multitudes : ...

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