a) Anonymous - Unanimous b) Casual - Causal c) Compliment - Complement. d) Mean - Moon e) Night - Knight

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1 (DEG 01 (NR)) ASSIGNMENT - 1, MAY Paper I : HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1) Correct the following sentences and identify the unacceptable features. a) Let us discuss about the project. b) Ramesh congratulated him for his success. c) Is he understanding my point? d) Sartaj is a good girl. Is she? e) She had met him yesterday. f) He returned back from london yesterday. g) I have passed the examine in h) One of my friend is a teacher. 2) Distinguish between the following pairs of words: a) Anonymous - Unanimous b) Casual - Causal c) Compliment - Complement. d) Mean - Moon e) Night - Knight

2 3) Distinguish between Norman French and Central French influence during the Middle period. 4) Trace out the influence of Latin and Greek on Language. 5) Write are explanatory note on the Great vowel shift. 6) Describe the characteristics of Middle.

3 ASSIGNMENT - 2, MAY (DEG 01(NR)) Paper I : HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1) Write short notes on the following: a) Slang. b) Grim s Law. c) Varner s Law. d) Meta language. 2) Explain briefly any THREE of the following process of word formation: a) Compounding. b) False Etymology. c) Abbreviation. d) Derivation. e) Back-formation. f) Syncopation.

4 3) Write short notes on the following processes of Semantic changes: a) Elevation. b) Polarisation. c) Transference. d) Euphemism. e) Prudery. f) Specialization. 4) In what way does American differ from the British? Give illustrations. 5) Write an essay on the contribution of Shakespeare to the explain language. 6) Write short notes on any Two of the following: a) Inkhorn terms. b) Spelling Reform. c) Indian. d) Webster s Dictionary. e) Standard.

5 (DEG 02 (NR)) ASSIGNMENT - 1, MAY Paper II : SHAKESPEARE 1) Annotate the following: a) I beseech your majesty, Make up, Lest your retirement do amaze your friends. b) O, no! my nephew must not know, Sir Richard, The liberal kind offer of the king c) You rogue, they were bound, every man of them; Or I am a Jew else, an Ebrew Jew. d) I think this be the most villainous house in all London road for fleas: I am stung like a tench. e) As thou art to thyself; Such was the very armour he had on When he the ambitious Norway combated;

6 f) Give him heedful note; For I mine eyes will river to his face, And after we will both our judgements join In Censure of his seeming. g) There s such divinity doth hedge a king That treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will. h) The portraiture of his; I ll court his favours; But, sure, the bravery of his grief did put me Into a towering passion. 2) Present a comparison of the characters of Prmier Hal and Hotspum in Shakespeare s Henry IV part I 3) Discuss the concept of Honour in various characters in Henry IV Part I 4) Write an essay on the theme of delay in Hamlet. 5) Discuss Hamlet as a problem play.

7 ASSIGNMENT - 2, MAY (DEG 02 (NR)) Paper II : SHAKESPEARE 1) Write a note on the Elizabethan theatre. 2) Discuss the sonnets of Shakespeare as autobiographical. 3) Examine the comic element in Twelfth Night. 4) Write an essay on the features of a tragi-comedy as found in The Tempest 5) Write short notes on the following: a) Theme of Henry IV Part I b) Form of a Sonnet c) Shakespeare s Romantic Comedies d) Character of Polonius in Hamlet. e) The Elizabethan Drama. f) The grave biggers scene. g) Supernatural character in The Tempest. h) Character of Falstaff.

8 ((DEG 03) NR) ASSIGNMENT - 1, MAY Paper III : MODERN LITERATURE I ( ) 1) Answer any Four of the Following a) What will be, shall be! Divinity. Adieu! These metaphysics of magicians, and necromantic books are heavenly! b) Why this is hell, nor am I out of it. Think st thou that I, who saw the face of God,... In being deprived of everlasting bliss? c) A man would die, though he were neither valiant, nor miserable, only upon a weariness to do the same thing so oft, over and over. d) Chaste women are often proud and froward, as presuming upon the merit of their chastity. e) The joys of parents are secret; and so are their griefs and fears.

9 f) Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown, let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one g) You this entireness better may fulfill, Who have the pattern with you still h) We die and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love 2) Discuss the character of Mephastophilis. How much of a role does he play in Faustu s damnation? 3) Explain the quality of brevity in Francis bacon s style of writing essays. 4) Bring out the metaphysical features in Donne s poems The good morrow and The Canonization 5) How does Milton build the argument in his Paradise Lost Book-I? 6) Write an essay on Milton s grand style.

10 ((DEG 03) NR) ASSIGNMENT - 2, MAY Paper III : MODERN LITERATURE I ( ) 1) Sketch the character of Mortimer. 2) How does kyd create ambiguity in the characters motivation with the help of soliloquies? 3) Consider The White Devil as a revenge tragedy. 4) Discuss Dryden s Absolom and Achitophel as a great political satire. 5) Write an essay on the style, wit and Irony in The Way of the World. 6) Write short notes on the following: 1. History play 2. Good and evil in Paradise Lost Book - I 3. Metaphysical conceit 4. Poet s role in society according to Sidney 5. Character of Satan 6. Satire and Irony 7. History play 8. Imagery

11 (DEG 04 (NR)) ASSIGNMENT - 1, MAY Paper IV : MODERN LITERATURE II ( ) 1) Annotate any Four of the following a) Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow. b) Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: cold pastoral! c) Wisdom and spirit of the universe! Thou soul that art the eternity of thought! d) Can I forget you, being as ye were So beautiful among the pleasant fields. e) Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature.

12 f) His first defect is that to which may be imputed most of the evil in books or in men. g) Well, at any rate I shall be glad to get her from under my intuition. h) And it is my wish, while yet I live, to have my boy make some figure in the world. 2) Explain keats as a romantic poet with a special reference to his odes prescribed. 3) Critically comment on the theme of The prelude Book I. 4) Discuss Dr. Johnson as a Neo-classical critic with a special reference to Preface to Shakespeare. 5) Justify the title of the play The Rivals. 6) Examine the contribution of the 18 th Novelists to the rise of Novel.

13 (DEG 04 (NR)) ASSIGNMENT - 2, MAY Paper IV : MODERN LITERATURE II ( ) 1) Evaluate The Rape of the Lock as a mock heroic epic. 2) Discuss coleridge s symbolism in Rime of the Ancient Mariner. 3) Attempt a critical appreciation of Shelly s Adonais. 4) Examine Lamb s autobiographical element in the essays prescribed. 5) Critically comment on Ansten s thematic concerns in Emma. 6) Write a critical essay on the plot and structure of She stoops to conquer.

14 (DEG 05 (NR)) 1) Annotate the following. ASSIGNMENT - 1, MAY Paper V : MODERN LITERATURE III ( ) a) There lies the port: the Vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with me- b) One finger in his beard or twisted curl Over his mouth s good mark that made the smile, One arm about my shoulder, round my neck The jingle of his gold chain in my ear. c) It is a part solution, after all. One is not necessarily discord On earth. d) A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. e) What is that sound high in the air Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air Falling towers Jerusalem Athens Alexandria.

15 f) But the names on that white banner were not the names of Satan and Beelzebub, but the blessed names of our Lord and His holy mother g) If you will not believe in them; even if they are only the echoes of my own commonsense, are they not always right? and are not your earthly Counsels always wrong? h) The elementary particles of language will be realized as colour and light and shade through his scholarly living in the full sense of them. 2) Critically examine the main theme in Tennyson s ulysses. 3) Bring out the portrayal of the Italian renaissance in Browning s Andrea del Sarto. 4) Do you agree with the view of Matthiessen that The Waste Land embodies simultaneously several planes of experience, for it suggests the likenesses between various waste lands? Discuss. 5) Critically analyse the character of Joan of Arc in St. Joan. 6) Bring out the thematic concerns in Ted Hughes Gog. 7) Pater s essay on style is a remarkable document on the art of writing. Explain.

16 (DEG 05 (NR)) ASSIGNMENT - 2, MAY Paper V : MODERN LITERATURE III ( ) 1) Examine W.B. yeats as a poet of symbolism from your study of the poems prescribed. 2) Henchard s character draws the readers sympathy in view of the pessimistic views of the novelist in The Mayor of Casterbridge. Discuss. 3) Give an analysis of the significance of the title Sons and Lovers. 4) Consider To the Lighthouse as a Psychological novel. 5) There is no action in Waiting for Godot. Explain. 6) Write an essay of the dramatic technique of Eliot in The Cocktail Party.

17 7) Write short notes on the following: a) Theme of My Last Duchess. b) Hardy s pessimism in The Mayor of Casterbridge. c) Shaw as a playwright of ideas. d) Poets of the Thirties. e) Significance of Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata. f) Symbols in W.B. Yeats poems. g) Beckett s art of Characterisation. h) Stream of Consciousness as a technique of narration.