BDP
Assignment
December-2017 & June-2018
Elective Course
ENGLISH
( New Syllabus )
1st Paper
From the Beginnings to Chaucer : Literature and
Language in Evolution : EEG-1
SECTION - A
1.
Answer any
two of the following questions: 20 × 2 = 40
a) Discuss the growth and development of Middle English drama. How did these plays contribute to the growth of Elizabethan drama ?
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b) Bring out the features of epic poetry in Beowulf.
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c) Assess the nature and extent of the Scandinavian influence on the English Language.
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d) Discuss the particular features of Shakespeare’s use of the English language.
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2. Answer any three of the following questions: 10 × 3 = 30
a) Comment on Chaucer’s portrayal of the Wife of Bath.
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b) Show how the Wakefield Second Shepherds’ Play balances religious and secular elements.
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c) Comment on the note of melancholy in Anglo-Saxon elegiac poetry with reference to any one poem that you have read.
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d) Comment on the nature of the pre- Christian Latin loan words.
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e) Discuss the importance of the French influence on English phonetics and grammar.
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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)
How did the Authorised Version of the Bible influence the English language?
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c)
Write a brief note on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
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d)
What is ‘Johnsonese’? Discuss with examples.
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SECTION - B
4.
Phonemically transcribe any three of the following words & put the stress
mark after transcription: 3 + 3
monopoly,
student, bicycle, song, between, convict.
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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
prefer,
cook, down, 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
lost the love of heaven above,
I
spurned the lust of earth below,
I
felt the sweets of fancied love,
And
hell itself my only foe.
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b)
Much
have I travell’d in the realms of gold
And
many goodly states and kingdoms seen ;
Round
many western islands have I been
Which
bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
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7.
Identify
and explain the figures of speech in any one of the following extracts : 5
a)
We
look before and after,
And
pine for what is not :
Our
sincerest laughter
With
some pain is fraught ;
Our
sweetest songs are those that tell of
saddest
though
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b)
Where
palsy shakes a few, sad, last grey
hairs,
Where
youth grows pale, and spectre-thin,
and
dies ;
Where
but to think is to be full of sorrow
And
Leaden-eyed despairs ;
Where
Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes,
Or
new love pine at them beyond to-morrow.
