ASSIGNMENT - 1, MAY M.A., FIRST YEAR (PREVIOUS) DEGREE

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1 ASSIGNMENT - 1, MAY (DEG 01) Paper I HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1. Correct the following sentence and identify the unacceptable features. (g) (h) I have seen him ten minutes age. I shall telephone you when he will come back She told that she was going to market. You should avail the offer. He was hung for murder. This book is too interesting. Seldom I get any sleep. The station is far from here 2. Discuss the Scandinavian elements in. 3. What is the influence of latin on language? Illustrate. 4. Write a note on old. 5. Discuss how the meanings of words in have changed in the course of time. 6. Write short notes of the following Verner's law. Standard. The influence of bible in the growth of the language. Influence of Shakespeare an.

2 (DEG 01) ASSIGNMENT - 2, MAY Paper I HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1. Distinguish between the following pairs of words. Ascent assent Compliment complement Idle idol Rap wrap Weather whether 2. Explain briefly of the following process of word formation. Onomatopaeia Prefixes Syncopation. Meta analysis Corruption Freak formations. 3. Write short notes of the following processes of semantic change. Extension. Polarisation Euphemism Prudery

3 Slang Reversal of meaning. 4. Discuss American influence on. 5. Write a essay on the influence of Radio and journalism on. 6. Write short notes of the following Dr. Johnson's dictionary Basic Archaism in Intonation Dialects.

4 ASSIGNMENT - 1, MAY (DEG 02) Paper II SHAKESPEARE 1. Annotate of the following : And let men say we be men of good Government being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance - we steal. Tell me, sweet lord, what is t that takes from thee thy stomach, pleasure and thy golden sleep? you have deceived our trust, And made us doff our easy robes of peace, To crush our old limbs in ungentle steel. When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound. 2. Examine the historical basis of the play Henry IV Part I and point out the historical inaccuracies. 3. Falstaff is a complete pragmatist, weighing everything by its contribution to the one object of his life which is to go on boisterously. Discuss. 4. In hamlet, The poet depicts the immense gap between a sense of duty and its fulfilment. Discuss. 5. Consider Hamlet as a great tragedy of Shakespeare. 6. Critically comment on the plot construction of a Shakespearean play.

5 ASSIGNMENT - 2, MAY Paper II SHAKESPEARE (DEG 02) 1. Annotate of the following : I doubt it is no other but the main; His father s death and our o erhasty marriage.. mow could I drink hot blood And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on. That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once; how the know jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain s jaw-bone, that did the first murder!. in mine ignorance Your skill shall, like a star i the darkest night Stick fieug off indeed. 2. Bring out the salient features of a Shakespearean sonnet. 3. Indicate the gentle satire upon the vain and the foolish in Twelfth Night. 4. Critically comment on the characteristics in The Tempest. 5. Write short notes on any FOUR of the following : Significance of the opening scene in a Shakespearean play. (g) (h) Character of Prince Henry. chronicle play. Character of Caliban. Character of Ophelia. Play within the play in Hamlet. Clown is Twelfth Night. Theme of a Shakespearean sonnet.

6 (DEG 03) 1. Annotate of the following; ASSIGNMENT - 1, MAY Paper III MODERN LITERATURE I ( ) Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In the self place, for where we are is hell. Now Mehistophilis, the restless course. That time doth run with calm and silent foot, Shortening my days and thread of vital life. For he that talketh what he knoweth, will also talk what he knoweth not. Therefore set it down, that an habit of secrecy is both politic and moral. For they are as men fallen out with the times; and think other men's harms a redemption of their own suffering. 2. Would you consider faustus as an over reacher? Discuss. 3. Discuss in detail any single essay on Bacon prescribed for your study. 4. Write a note on Donne's use of metaphysical concerts. 5. Critically comment on the portrayal of satan's character in Paradise Lost Book I. 6. Write a note on the Marlowrial mighty line!

7 ASSIGNMENT - 2, MAY Paper III MODERN LITERATURE I ( ) (DEG 03) 1. Annotate of the following; If our two lovers be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slackew, none can die. Call us what you will, we are made such by love; Call her one, me another fly. what though the field he lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of reverge, immortal hale, And courage never to submit or yield. The mind is it own place, and in itself can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell if Heav'ns 2. Examine the character of gavestone in Edward II. 3. Consider the Spanish Tragedy as a tragedy. 4. Write an essay on the revenge theme in webster's The White Devil. 5. Examine the allegorical nature of Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel. 6. Discuss Sidney's views on poetry of his time. 7. Write short notes of the following : Character of Eve in Paradise Lost Book IX. The Way of the world as a comedy of manners. The Motif of Revenge Everyman in His Humour and Realism Bacon's contribution to english prose. Mitlon's grand style. (g) Theme of love in Donne (h) Restoration comedy.

8 ASSIGNMENT - 1, MAY Paper IV MODERN LITERATURE II ( ) (DEG 04) 1. Annotate of the following: Forlorn! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from the to my sole self! What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstacy? A vital breeze which travelled gently on o'ver Things which it hath made, and is become. Dear liberty? Yet what wouldn't avail But for a gift that consecrates the joy? 2. Examine Keat's romanticism with a special reference to his odes selected for the study. 3. Discuss the theme of the Book I of The Prelude. 4. Evaluate Dr. Johnson as a neo-classical critic with a special reference to The Preface to Shakespeare. 5. Critically comment on The Rivals as an anti-sentimental comedy. 6. Enumerate the characteristic features of the Romantic Period.

9 ASSIGNMENT - 2, MAY Paper IV MODERN LITERATURE II ( ) (DEG 04) 1. Annotate of the following: (g) (h) He has long outlined his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it. When I ran away with you mother, I would not have touched anything old or ugly to gain an empire. At night, we single lads will drink a health to the young couples and a husband to Mrs. Malaprop. 2. Examine The Rape of the Lock as a mock heroic poem. 3. Write a critical note on the symbolism in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 4. Discuss Adonais as a pastoral elegy. 5. Comment on Charles lamb's autobiographical element in his essays of Elia. 6. Justify the title of the play She Stoops to Conquer. 7. Write an essay on Jane Austen's irovy in Emma.

10 ASSIGNMENT - 1, MAY Paper V MODERN LITERATURE III (DEG 05) 1. Annotate the following : Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with gods. My youth, my hope, my art, being all toned down To yonder sober pleasant Fiesole. To roar on the rockery stones And the groves were blue with sailors. Soon I mocked at all I heard Though with cause indeed for fear. 2. Critically comment on the theme of Ulysses. 3. Consider Andrea Del Sarto as a perfect monologue. 4. Bring out the picture of modern world and life in The Waste Land. 5. Consider St. Joan as a religious play. 6. Critically comment on the poem On the Move. 7. Bring out the views of Pater in Style.

11 ASSIGNMENT - 2, MAY Paper V MODERN LITERATURE III (DEG 05) 1. Annotate the following :... As he rose and fell He passed the stages of his age and youths Entering the whirlpool They strap in doubt-by hiding it, robust- And almost hear a meaning in their noise. There is always danger, except in heaven. Oh, may Lord you have given me such strength, such courage. The literary artist, therefore, will be well aware of physical science, science also attaining, in its turn, its true literary ideal. 2. Bring out the symbolism presented in the poems of W.B. Yeats prescribed for your study. 3. Write an essay on the art of characterisation in Hardy s Mayor of Casterbridge. 4. Comment on the theme of the novel Sons and Lovers. 5. Consider To The Lighthouse as a novel with stream of consciousness technique. 6. Discuss Waiting for Godot as an absurd play. 7. Consider The Cocktail Party as a poetic drama. 8. Write short notes on FOUR of the following : (g) (h) Irish theatre Theme of My Last Duchess. Sources for The Waste Land. Miriam in Sons and Lovers. Theme of Gog Pessimism in Hardy Tennyson as a poet Theme of A Game of Chess.

M.A. (Previous) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY First Year. English. Paper I HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

(DEG 01) Time : Three hours M.A. (Previous) DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2012. First Year English Paper I HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Questions in Unit I are Compulsory. Answer TWO questions from Unit II