1) Correct the following sentences and identify the unacceptable features.

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1 (DEG 01 (NR)) ASSIGNMENT - 1, DEC Paper I : HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1) Correct the following sentences and identify the unacceptable features. a) I am met Mohan at seven this evening. b) We are leaving of America soon. c) He is loved among all. d) We discussed about the matter. e) I think I have caught a flu. f) I am waiting here for almost an hour. g) She makes us do a lots of homework. h) Give me him pen. 2) Distinguish between the following pairs of words. a) Peace Piece b) Knight night c) Coal cool d) Some Sum e) Cop Coupe 3) Trace the origin of Language. 4) Write an essay on the Indo European family of Languages. 5) Elucidate Grimm s Law and Verner s Law. 6) Write an essay on Standard.

2 ASSIGNMENT - 2, DEC (DEG 01(NR)) Paper I : HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1) Write short notes on the following. a) Germanic Language. b) French words inducted during the middle Period. c) Scandinavian influence on Pronounciation Grammar, Syntax. d) Norse influence. 2) Explain briefly the following process of word formation. a) Limitation/Onamotoporia. b) Using one part of speech as another. c) Telescaping. d) Port manteau. e) Making words from initials. f) Corruption or misunderstanding. 3) Write short notes on the following processes of semantic change. a) Generalization. b) Extension. c) Association of ideas. d) Depolarisation. e) Euphemisms. f) Reversal of meaning. 4) Give your account on similarities and dissimilarities between American and British.

3 5) It is a well known fact that,, Shakespeare had the largest vocabulary of any writer. Discuss. 6) Write short notes on the following. a) Prefixes. b) The influence of journalism. c) Slang. d) The standard speech. e) Coinages.

4 (DEG 02 (NR)) ASSIGNMENT - 1, DEC Paper II : SHAKESPEARE 1) Annotate the following: a) Such beastly shameless transformation By those Walshwomen done as may not be Without much shame retold or spoken of b) This is no world To play with mammets and to tilt with lips We must have bloody noses and crack d crowns, And pass them current too. c) It were not good; for there in should we read The very bottom and the soul of hope, The very list, the very utmost bound Of all our fortunes. d) O God! They did me too much injury That ever said I hearken d for your death. e) Is the main motive of our preparations, The source of this our watch and the chief head Of this post-haste and romage in the land. f) perhaps he loves you now, And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch The virtue of his will. g) What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty!

5 h) I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum, what will thou do for her? 2) Examine the historical basis of the play Henry IV part I and point out the historical inaccuracies. 3) Falstaff is a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions. Discuss. 4) Is Hamlet merely play-acting insanity? Discuss. 5) Discuss suicide as an important theme in Hamlet.

6 ASSIGNMENT - 2, DEC (DEG 02 (NR)) Paper II : SHAKESPEARE 1) Discuss the concept of honour as it is presented and attacked in the play Hamlet. 2) Explain how the mistaken identities and disguises function in the plot development of the play Twelfth Night. 3) Discuss the treatment of supernatural element in The Tempest. 4) Discuss the theme of love in the sonnets of Shakespeare. 5) Write short notes on the following: a) Features of Shakespearean Sonnet. b) Workester in Henry IV part I. c) Gertude in Hamlet. d) Compare Orsino and Olivia in Twelfth Night. e) Caliban in The Tempest. f) Significance of the opening scene in Shakespeare s plays. g) Tragic flaw in Hamlet. h) Shakespeare s use of blank verse.

7 ((DEG 03) NR) ASSIGNMENT - 1, DEC Paper III : MODERN LITERATURE I ( ) 1) Annotate the following: a) Come, show me some demonstrations magical That I may conjure in some lusty grove And have these joys in full possession. b) No other ways for pomp and majesty Than when sir paris crossed the seas with her And brought the spoils to rich Dardania. Be silent then, for danger is in words. c) Death hath this also; that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy. d) A single life doth well with churchmen, for charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool. e) Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still Litigious men, which quarrels move, Though she and I do love. f) New battery to thy heart may frame, Then think this name alive, and that thou thus In it offend st my Genius. g) Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth: at last Words interwove with sighs found out their way:- h) There the companions of his fall, o erwhelm d With floods and whirlwinds of tempestuous fire,

8 2) Is Dr.Faustus a christian tragedy? Discuss. 3) Discuss senecan influence on Dr. Faustus. 4) Bacon s essays reflect his deep understanding of human nature and ripe experiences of life. Discuss. 5) Consider Donne as a Metaphysical poet. 6) Discuss the grand style of Milton.

9 ((DEG 03) NR) ASSIGNMENT - 2, DEC Paper III : MODERN LITERATURE I ( ) 1) Discuss Edward II as a historical play. 2) Consider Every Man in His Humour as a comedy of Intrigue. 3) Establish The Spanish Tragedy as a revenge play. 4) Abslam and Achitophel is a brilliant satire of Dryden. Discuss. 5) Consider the view that The White Devil ultimately presents the triumph of evil over good. 6) Write short notes on the following. a) Opening scene in Edward II. b) Comedy of Humours. c) Restoration drama. d) Epic similes. e) Solilques of Dr. Faustus. f) Sources of Edward II. g) The play with in- a play in The Spanish Tragedy. h) Sidney s views on poetry.

10 (DEG 04 (NR)) ASSIGNMENT - 1, DEC Paper IV : MODERN LITERATURE II ( ) 1) Annotate the following: a) That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, and with thee fade away into the forest dim: b) No shrine, no grove, no oracle, no heat Of pale-mouth d prophet dreaming. c) Wisdom and spirit of the universe! Thoul soul that art the eternity of thought! d) With the eternal beauty, drinking in A pure organic pleasure from the lines of curling mist, or from the level plain of Waters colour d by the steady clouds. e) Nothing can please many and please long, but just representations of general nature. f) Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities but because they bring realities to mind. g) Of he is as deserving and sincere as you have represented him to me, he will never give you up so. h) Stay, now, they were some pretty melancholy puling stream airs, I warrant; perhaps you may recollect. Did she sing, when absent from my souls delight? 2) Establish Keats as a romantic poet with the help of his odes.

11 3) Discuss Wordsworth s attitude towards nature as presented in The Prelude Book I. 4) What is the central style of Shakespeare according to Dr. Johnson? Discuss? 5) Consider The Rivals as a Restoration comedy. 6) Discuss the rise of novel.

12 (DEG 04 (NR)) ASSIGNMENT - 2, DEC Paper IV : MODERN LITERATURE II ( ) 1) Discuss The Rape of the Lock as a mock heroic poem 2) Explain the significant motivating force in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. 3) Discuss Adonais as a Pastoral elegy. 4) Bring out the humour and pathos in Lamb s essays. 5) Discuss Emma as a social comedy. 6) Justify the title She Stoops to Conquer.

13 (DEG 05 (NR)) 1) Annotate the following : ASSIGNMENT - 1, DEC Paper V : MODERN LITERATURE III ( ) a) Old age hath yet his honour and his toil; Death closes all; but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods. b) My youth, my hope, my art, being all toned down To yonder sober pleasant Fiesole. c) Made all day until bell time A woman figure without fault Straight as a young elm d) Thunder claps of man s despair In mid-whirl of mental storms. e) Here is the man with three staves, and here the wheel, And here is the one-eyed merchant, and this card, which is blank, is something he carries on his back, f) He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience g) They all say I am mad until I talk to them squire But you see that it is the will of God that you are to do what He has put into my mind. h) At worse, one is in motion, and at best, Reaching no absolute, in which to rest One is always nearer by not keeping still.

14 2) Critically comment on the theme of Ulysses. 3) Consider Andrea Del Sarto as a dramatic monologue. 4) Different voices and shifting points merge together to give a kind of unity to The Waste Land. Discuss. 5) Discuss the theme of On the Move. 6) Consider St.Joan as a chronicle play. 7) Comment on the views of Pater expressed in Style.

15 (DEG 05 (NR)) ASSIGNMENT - 2, DEC Paper V : MODERN LITERATURE III ( ) 1) Attempt a critical analysis of Sailing to Byzantium. 2) Discuss the role of coincidence in the novel The Mayor of Casterbridge. 3) Much of the novel is concerned with Paul s relationship with women in Sons and Lovers. Discuss. 4) To the Light house is a novel about the search for meaning in life. Discuss. 5) Discuss Waiting for Godot as an absurd play. 6) Comment on the role of Celia in The Cocktail Party. 7) Write short notes on the following: a) Theme of Byzantium b) Dramatic Monologue c) Sources of The Waste Land d) Symbolism in modern poetry e) The Ramsay s House in To The Light House f) Oedipus complex in Sons and Lovers g) Theme of Tears, Idle Tears h) Theme of Mermaid, Dragon and Fiend.