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1 DIRECTORATE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION S.V. UNIVERSITY; TIRUPATI Date: 20: INSTRUCTIONS FOR WRITING ASSIGNMENTS Dear Distance Learner Hope you are preparing well for your firth coming examinations to be held during August to October, 2014 onwards. You are already aware that the DDE has introduced internal assessenments (writing of assignments) from the academic year and they will he evaluated for 20 marks for each paper. The University examinations will be held only for 80 marks in each paper. Hence, herewith we are sending assignment questions For all papers of PG (Pervious) course students who werejoined in batches. You havac to write all the assignments in your own hand writing in a long size tin ruled note book, keeping separate note book to each paper (i.e. 5 books for 5 papers). Typed and scanned meterial will not be accepted. The following particulars should be written on the first page (front) of the asignment note hook. 1. NAME OF THE CANDIDATE 2. ENROLLMENT NO. 3. NAME OF THE COURSE & SUBJECT 4. PAPER TITLE AND NUMBER 5. HALL TICKET NO. (to be written compulsorily) Further, it is informed to all the candidates that the writing assignments and submission is compulsory. Otherwise the candidates will forego the internal assignment marks 0.e..20) and it will not be taken into consideration for the subsequent years, if you fail to submit now. The completed assignment books are to be sent through Registered Post or Handover in person to the address given below. THE DIRECTOR DIRECTORATE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION S. V.UNIVERSITY. TIRUR\TI Note: Submission of Assignments : Before last date of your examination. Late submission of asignments will not be accepted and they will be summarily rejected. To All Students, All Co-ordinators of Stud y DIRECTOR

2 M.A. ENGLISH INTERNAL ASSIGNMENTS Annotate any FOUR of the following : PART I PREVIOUS Paper I SHAKESPEARE (a) There are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh i `th' alehouse. What miserable praise hast thou for her that's foul and foolish? (b) (c) (d) No; for I hold him to be unworthy of his place that does those things. Well, God's above all; and there be souls must be saved, and there be soul's must not be saved. To confess, and be hang'd for his labour first, to be hang'd, and then to confess. I tremble at it. Nature would not invest herself in such shadowing passion without some instruction. I am your wife, if you will marry me If not, I'll die your in aid..to be your fellow y ou may deny me; but I'll be your servant, whether you will or no. (e) We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. Sir, I am vex'd; Bear with my weakness; my old brain is troubled;. Be not disturb'd with my infirmity. (f) I should sin To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.

3 (g) If he fall in, good night, or sink or swim. Send danger from the east unto the west, So honour cross it from the north to south, And let them- grapple. 0, the blood more stirs To rouse a lion than to start a hare! (h) A king's son! If I do not beat thee Out of thy kingdom with a daggar Of lath, and drive all thy subjects afore thee lik a flock of wild 'geese, I ll never wear hair on my face more. 2. Write short notes on any FOUR of the following : (a) (b) (c) Gross animality Of Trinculo and stephano in The Tempest Role of Isabella in Measure for Measure. Manipulative. nature Of Iago in the play Othello. (d) Falstaff s unheroic egotism in Henry IV Part I. (e) Stock Elizabethan dramatic characters. (f) Clown in Twelfth Night. - (g) (h) Pathos in Julius Caesar.' Women in Shakespeare. SECTION A Answer any TWO of the following in words not exceeding 300 each. 3. Trace the reasons for gago's intent to destroy Othello. 4. The killing of Desdemona in Othello makes the play unbearably painful justify. 5. Discuss the intricacies in the relationship between prosper and caliban in The Tempest. 6. Explain how you rate miranda's innocence in the play The Tempest and for what effect? 7. Discuss theme of honour in the play Henry IV Part I. 8. Comment on the 'high political', 'low comic' and 'politically immoral' actions in the play Henry IV Part I. 2

4 S E C T I O N B Answer any TWO of the following in words not exceeding 300 each. 9. Write an essay on how the comic elements enrich and comment on the romantic elements in the play Twelfth Night. 10. Analyse the character and predicament of Malvolio in Twelfth Night. 11. Do you agree with the view that Brutus in Julius Caesar is destroyed largely by his own virtues? Elaborate. 12. Discuss Julius Caesar as a political tragedy involving private and public virtues. 13. Trace three importance themes in the play Measure for Measure. 14. E x p l ain how. Christian : mo r a l o f m e r c y t r i u m p h s o v e r st r i ct j u s t i c e i n Measure for measure. 3

5 M.A. ENGLISH INTERNAL ASSIGNMENTS-2014 PART I PREVIOUS Paper II POETRY FROM RENAISSANCE TO THE ROMANTIC REVIVAL Question 1 and 2 are compulsory. Answer TWO froni Section A and TWO from Section B; 1. Annotate any FOUR of the following : (a) Call us what you will, wee' are made such by love. Call her one, mee another flye, We' are tapers too, and at our owne cost die. (b) She is all states, and all princes, I, nothing else is (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) Princes doe but play us.; compar'd to this. For that his conscious destiny made way By manly beauty to imperial sway. Let him give on till he can give no more, The thrifty Sanhedrin shall keep him poor. Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own: Yearning she hath in her owitnatural kind, And even with something of a mother's mind.. In hours of weariness, sensations sweet. Felt in the blood, and belt along the heart, And passing even into my purer mind. I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incence hangs upon the boughs, But, in emblamed darkness guess each sweet. Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter : therefore, yet soft pipes, play on; 2. Write short notes on any FOUR of the following : (a).(b) (c) (d) Epic Pantheism Ballad Lyric

6 (e) (f) (g) (h) The Ode Epistle Symbolism Negative.capahil ity. SECTION - A Answer any TWO of the following in words not exceeding 300 each. 3. In what sense is Donne precisely a metaphysical poet? Discuss poems you have read: 4. Bring out the political allegory in Absàlom and Achitophel. 5. Keats was a Greek ; and is nothing more so than in his treatment of nature. Explain with reference to the poem 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'..6. How does Wordsworth xpresses the views of childhood in his poem 'Ode on Intimations. of immortality'? 7. Examine critically the merits and demerits of Wordsworth's poems. "Ode to the Intimations of immortality" and Tintern Abbey. 8. Discuss 'Ode to a Nightingale' as a Romantic Ode SECTION - B Answer any TWO of the following in words not exceeding 300 each. 9. Consider Satan as hero of Paradise Lost, Book. Explain with suitable illustrations. 10. Describe Shelley's poetic art in the poem 'Toaskylark' and explain how Poet's heart is enraptured by the melodious -music of the Skylark. 11. What aspects of Coleridge's romanticism do you find in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"?. 12. Critically examine the theme of 'An Epistle' to Dr. Arbuthnot'? 13. Explain the purpose of using imagery by Spenser in 'Epithalamion' and elaborate with illustrations. 2.

7 M.A. ENGLISH INTERNAL ASSIGNMENTS-2014 Part I PREVIOUS Paper III NOVEL SECTION. A Answer any FOUR of the following not exceeding I page each. 1. (a) Domestic novel (b) Psychological novel (c) Social realism (d) Psychological realism (e) Symbolism in fiction.. (f) Epynomous novel (g) Bildungsroman (h) Interior monologue. SECTION B Write short notes on any FOUR of the following. 2. (a) Handling of time in novel (b) Narrative strategics (c) Women characters (d) Point of view (e) Leitmotif (f) Epiphonies (g) Telling and showing. (h) Typical characters. [

8 S E C T I O N - C Answer any FOUR of the following in words not exceeding 300 each. 3. Discuss how in Tom Jones the individual finds fulfillment, and harmon y within the aocep ted social pattern. 4. Do you agree with the view that in 'novel after novel Jane Austen made manners, morality and marriages Of louded gentry of century her main concern? Elaborate. 5. Discuss the portrayal of Stephen Blackpool as a representative of the poor hands in I-lard Times. 6. Can you account for Hardy's pessimistic vision by, using examples from Tess of the Durbervilles? 7. i-low far is it justified to consider the mother and son relationship as an Oedipus complex? Give your reasons. 8. Discuss the character of Whiskey priest in The Power arid the glory. 9. Consider Evelyn's Wangh's The Decline and Fall as a greedy comedy. 10. How does William golding dramatize the conflict between rationalism and savagery in Lord of the Flies? 11. Discuss the narrative technique b y which Virginia Woolf brings out Mrs.. Dalloway's inner alienation. 2

9 M.A. ENGLISH INTERNAL ASSIGNMENTS Annotate any FOUR of the following : PART I -- PREVIOUS Paper IV PROSE AND LITERARY CRITICISM (a) The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned depart from established forms of speech, in hope of finding or making better; those who wish for distinction foresake the. vulgar, when the vulgar is right; but there is a conversation above grossness and below refinement, where propriety resides, and where this poet seems to have gathered his comic dialogue. (b) No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. (c) The possible iriterests. of a poet are unlimited; the more intelligent he is the more likely that he will have interests; our only condition is that he turn them into poetry, and not merely meditate on them poetically. (d) We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious. shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name'. (e) Pig-Let me speak his praise- is no less provocative - of the appetite, than he is satisfactory to the criticalness of the censorious palate. The strong man may batten on him, and the weakling refuseth not his mild juices: (e Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it. will not rise to the price of a diamond or. carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie cloth ever add pleasure. (g) As for equivocations, or oraeulous speeches, they cannot hold out long. So that no man can be secret, except he give himself a little scope of dissimulation; Which is, as it were, but the skirts or train of secrecy. (h) Young men are fitter to invent, than to judge, fitter for execution, than for counsel; and fitter for new projects, than for settled business. For the experience of age, in things that fall within the compass of it, directeth them; but in new things, abuseth them. 2. Write short notes on any FOUR of the following (a) (b) (c) Aphoristic element in Bacon's essays. Samuel Johnson's defence of tragicomedy of Shakespeare. 'LS. Eliot's 'objective correlative'.

10 (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) Coleridge's distinction between fancy and imagination. Arnold's beliefs and assumptions on poetry. Portraits of early friends and acquaintances in 'Recollections of the south-sea House' by Lamb. Concerns of Coverly Papers. Marxist materialistic philosophy. SECTION A Answer any TWO of the following in words not exceeding 300 each. 3. Discuss the theme and style of the essay 'of studies' by Bacon. 4. On what basis Johnson finds Shakespeare supreme compared to other dramatists of his age. 5. Trace both serious and trivial side, of perceptions of life presented by Lamb in the essays prescribed for study. 6. Explain how T.S. Eliot argued in favour of 'dissociation of sensibility' in 'his essay 'The metaphysical poets'. SECTION - B Answer any TWO of the following in words not exceeding 300 each. 7. Discuss the fundamental epistemological ideas on which coleridge rests his critical theory in Biographia Literaria. 8. Give reasons for Arnold's low rating of English romantics and insistence on creative and critical powers. 9. According to Edmund Wilson what sort of periods aro most favourable for work of art? 10. What is Cleanth Brook's contribution to new criticism through his essay 'grony on principle of structure'? 11. How does Haratian Satire gets reflected in 'Coverly Papers'. 12. Comment on the content and style of Ruskin in the Lecture on 'Lilies' in Sesame and Lilies. 2

11 M.A. ENGLISH INTERNAL ASSIGNMENTS P A R T I P R E V I O U S Paper V HISTORY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND PHONETICS SECTION A 1. Answer any TWO of the following. (a) Discuss the influence Of French on English language, giving suitable examples. (b) What are the factors that influenced modernization of English? (c) Write a note on-any four processes of change of meaning. (d) What are the characteristic features of American English? 2. Write short notes on any FOUR of the following : Back-formation (a) Reversal of meaning (b) Scandicurious influence (c) Latin words in English. (d) Suffixes. (e) Noah Webster (f) Derivation (g) Abbreviations. SECTION B 3. Write brief notes on any TWO of the following : (a) Central vowels. (b) Diphthongs. (c) Plosives. (d) Wear forms. (e) Falling tone. 4. Transcribe any FIVE of the following into phonetic script. (a) Drive cautiously and you'll get a remission on your insurance. (b) The train whistled as it stood at the level crossing. (c) There is a registered parcel for sita of the post office. 2

12 (d) Put sonic salt in the salad. (e) Her garden got dozens of roses. (f) Whose bag is that in the hall? (g). I don't know why he painted hi S garage red and white? and white? (h) The tiger is the king of the jungle. SECTION C 5. Write a brief essay on any ONE Of the following : (a) Write a critical note on Chaucer's use of irony and humour in The Prologue The Canterbury Tales. (b) What do you know about Chaucer the Man from Prologue to The Canterbury Tales. Why is Chaucer regarded as the Father of English poetry? 6. Translate into modern English any TWO of the following passages and comment on them (a) Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote the droughte of March.hath perced to the roote and bodied every beyne in swich licour of which vertu engendered is the flour. (b) There was also a none a prioresse that of his surylying was ful syurple and coy, hir gretteste ooth was but by seintdog, and she was eloped madame - Eglentyue Ful vol she soong the service dyoyne. (c) A good man was ther of religion and was a poore presuom of a town and. rich be was of holy though and were he was also a learned man,- a clerk. (d). To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes, and specially, from every shires ende of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende, the holy blishful martir for to seke. That hem hath holpen, whan that they were seke. 2

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P A R T I - P R E V I O U S. B r a n c h V ( A ) - E n g l i s h. P a p e r I - S H A K E S P E A R E P A R T I - P R E V I O U S B r a n c h V ( A ) - E n g l i s h P a p e r I - S H A K E S P E A R E 1. There are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh i 'th' alehouse. What miserable praise hast thou