EEG-01/
BEGE-101
Bachelor’s Degree Programme
(BDP)
ASSIGNMENT
(for July 2016 and January 2017 Sessions)
EEG-01/BEGE-101
ELECTIVE COURSE IN ENGLISH
School of Humanities
Indira Gandhi National Open University
Maidan Garhi, New Delhi-110 068
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Elective Course in English-01
(EEG-01)/(BEGE-101)
Programme Code: BDP
Course Code: EEG-01/BEGE-101/2016-17
Dear Student,
You need to attempt one assignment for the Elective Course in English-01. This assignment is Tutor
Marked (TMA) and carries 100 marks. The TMA is concerned mainly with assessing your application
and your understanding of the course material. It aims to teach as well as to assess your performance.
Instructions: Before attempting the assignment please read the following instructions carefully.
1.
Read the detailed instructions about the assignments given in the Programme Guide for Elective
Courses.
2.
Write your Roll Number, Name, Full Address and Date on the top right corner of the first page of
your response sheet(s).
3.
Write the Course Title, Assignment Number and the Name of the Study Centre you are attached
to in the centre of the first page of your response sheet(s).
4.
Do not plan to take the terminal examination for the course if you have not done the assignment
set for it first. You will not be permitted to do so.
The top of the first page of your response sheet should look like this:
Roll No. ………………………….
Name: ……………………………
Address..………………………….
..….……………………...
…..….…………………...
..….………………………
Date: ..………………………….
Course Title: …………………….
Assignment No: …………………
Study Centre …………………….
5.
Use only foolscap size paper for your response sheets and tag all the pages carefully.
6.
Write the relevant question number with each answer.
7.
You should write in your own handwriting.
8.
Submission: Remember to keep a copy of your assignment with you and to take a receipt
from your Study Centre when you submit the assignment. The completed assignment should
be sent to the Coordinator at the Study Centre allotted to you. Last Date for Submission of
Assignment is:
For June Exam
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31st March
For December Exam
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30th September
Good luck!
Note: Remember the submission of assignment is a precondition for appearing in the examination. If you do
not submit the assignment on time, you will not be allowed to appear in the examination.
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Elective Course in English
Assignment (EEG-01/BEGE-101)
Assignment Code: EEG-01/BEGE-101/TMA/2016-17
Max. Marks: 100
Answer all the questions.
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Read the following poem carefully and answer the following questions.
When will the bell ring, and end this weariness?
How long have they tugged the leash, and strained apart,
My pack of unruly hounds! I cannot start
Them again on a quarry of knowledge they hate to hunt,
I can haul them and urge them no more.
…….
I will not waste my soul and my strength for this.
What do I care for all that they do amiss!
What is the point of this teaching of mine, and of this
Learning of theirs? It all goes down the same abyss.
What does it matter to me, if they can write
A description of a dog, or if they can’t?
What is the point? To us both, it is all my aunt!
And yet I’m supposed to care, with all my might.
I do not, and will not; they won’t and they don’t; and that’s all!
I shall keep my strength for myself; they can keep theirs as well.
Why should we beat our heads against the wall
Of each other? I shall sit and wait for the bell.
1a
1b
1c
What do you think is the poet’s profession?
Who is he talking about?
Pick the words which describe the attitude of the poet:
irritable
frustrated
contemplative
inflexible
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1
3
bored
defiant
Say why you have picked these words:
1d
1e
1f
Why do you think the poet has this attitude?
What does the poet mean by the following lines “I cannot start…no more.”
Which is the main metaphor in the poem?
2
Match the words (from the poem) in the left-hand column with the definitions on the right. There is
one extra word.
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Pack
Amiss
Haul
Abyss
Unruly
Might
Tug
Urge
Leash
Hounds
Dogs used for hunting
Pull with sharp, powerful movements
Strength
Encourage
Search for
Wrong
Lead used to control a dog
Indisciplined
Pull with effort
Very deep chasm
Group
3
2
2
1
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Write the meaning of the following idioms and use each of them in sentences of your own.
10
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ii
iii
iv
v
to beat a retreat
to stick to one’s guns
to steal a march on
to pass muster
up in arms
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What is the difference between metonymy and synecdoche in the following sentences? Justify your
answers.
10
i
He has many mouths to feed
ii
The kettle is boiling.
iii
Education extends from the cradle to the grave.
iv
Take out your Shakespeare.
v
I have my daily bread to earn.
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In the short biography of the writer George Orwell below, the articles a, an and the are missing.
Insert the articles. There should be ten instances:
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George Orwell (whose real name was Eric Blair) was born in India in 1903 and was educated in
England. From 1922 to 1928 he served in Burma in Indian Imperial Police. For next two years he
lived in Paris and then came to England as school teacher. Later he worked in bookshop. In 1937 he
went to Spain to fight for Republicans and was wounded. During Second World War he was
member of Home Guard and worked for BBC. He died in London in 1950. He was famous writer.
His most famous book Animal Farm is classic.
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Explain with examples the following
i
ii
iii
iv
20
homophones and homographs.
alliteration and assonance
euphemism and hyperbole
simile and metaphor
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How many meanings can the following words have? Use each of them in sentences of your own.
table, tube, light, bank, foot
10
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Put where, who, that, which or when in the right place in each sentence:
i
ii
iii
iv
v
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The car was stolen was never found.
On Friday we were leaving for the cinema, the lights went out suddenly.
This is Charminar, the bangle shops are.
I wrote them an angry letter, made me feel better.
All the buses came this way did not stop.
Rewrite the following sentences using a polite structure. Use modals wherever possible.
i
ii
iii
iv
v
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Reschedule the meeting.
Bring all documents to the office.
Open the window.
Pass the salt.
Leave the room.
Write a note on repetition as a rhetorical device, giving at least five examples from prose, poetry or
drama.
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