M.A. English Fourth Semester Examination (Year 2016)
Critical Theory
Roll No.
Subject Code: MAEH-401
Paper Code: TMT-281
Time
: 3 Hrs.
M.Marks : 70
14x5=70 marks
Answer all questions.
Each units carries equal marks.
Q.No. 1
What are the three main types of implicit sense or dhvani explained in Anandwardhan's
Dhwnyalokam?
OR
In Saussure's tradition of Semiology, the value of a sign is determined by the other signs in the
system. Elaborate with examples.
Q.No. 2
What are the different connotations of 'Truth' explored by I.A. Richards in his essay The Two
Uses of Language?
OR
What is J.C. Ransom's ideal of 'structural understanding of the poem'? What is 'logical core' and
the 'local texture'?
Q.No. 3
Dr. Wellek pointed out that in his dealings with English poetry, Leavis has made a number of
assumptions that he neither defends nor states. What are these assumptions and what is leavis,
response to Wellek?
OR
In his essay Structure, Sign and Play, Derrida asserts, "the center is, paradoxically, within the
structure and outside it… the totality has its center elsewhere. The center is not the center".
Explain this destabilized notion of center.
Q.No. 4
With reference to Edward Said's prescribed essay, explain the followinga.
Textual attitude
b.
Modern Orientalist
c.
Crisis in Orientalism
OR
The Feminist Criticism is informed by the Feminist Theories. In the light of the statement, discuss
various feminist theories that have led to emergence of important trends in Feminist Criticism.
Q.No. 5
i)
Applying the techniques illustrated in I.A. Richards' Practical Criticism, analyze any one
piece of the poem.
I placed a jar in Tennessee,
And round it was, upon a hill.
It made the slovenly wilderness
Surround that hill.
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The wilderness rose up to it,
And sprawled around, no longer wild.
The jar was round upon the ground
And tall and of a port in air.
It took dominion every where.
The jar was gray and bare.
It did not give of bird or bush,
Like nothing else in Tennessee.
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I wander thro' each charter'd street,
Near where the charter'd Thames does flow.
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
In every cry of every Man,
In every Infants cry of fear,
In every voice: in every ban,
The mind-forg'd manacles I hear
How the Chimney-sweepers cry
Every blackning Church appalls,
And the hapless Soldiers sigh
Runs in blood down Palace walls
But most thro' midnight streets I hear
How the youthful Harlots curse
Blasts the new-born Infants tear
And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse
ii)
Critically evaluate any one of the given prose pieces.
I have no earMistake me not, reader, -- nor imagine that I am by nature destitute of those exterior twin
appendages, hanging ornaments, and (architecturally speaking) handsome volutes to the human
capital. Better my mother had never borne me. -- I am, I think, rather delicately than copiously
provided with those conduits; and I feel no disposition to envy the mule for his plenty, or the mole
for her exactness, in those ingenious labyrinthine inlets -- those indispensable side-intelligencers.
Neither have I incurred, or done any thing to incur, with Defoe, that hideous disfigurement, which
constrained him to draw upon assurance -- to feel "quite unabashed," and at ease upon that article.
I was never, I thank my stars, in the pillory; nor, if I read them aright, is it within the compass of my
destiny, that I ever should be.
When therefore I say that I have no ear, you will understand me to mean -- for music. -- To say that
this heart never melted at the concourse of sweet sounds, would be a foul self-libel. -- "Water
parted from the sea" never fails to move it strangely. So does "In Infancy." But they were used to
be sung at her harpsichord (the old-fashioned instrument in vogue in those days) by a gentlewoman -- the gentlest, sure, that ever merited the appellation -- the sweetest -- why should I
hesitate to name Mrs. S---, once the blooming Fanny Weatheral of the Temple who had power to
thrill the soul of Elia, small imp as he was, even in his long coats; and to make him glow, tremble,
and blush with a passion, that not faintly indicated the day-spring of that absorbing sentiment,
which was afterwards destined to overwhelm and subdue his nature quite, for …..
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I even think that sentimentally I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune. I
have been practising "God save the king" all my life; whistling and humming of it over to myself in
solitary corners; and am not yet arrived, they tell me, within many quavers of it. Yet hath the
loyalty of …. never been impeached.
OR
"There is no man," he began, "however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things,
or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would
gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because
he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man-so far as it is possible for any of us to
be wise-unless he has passed through all the fatuous or unwholesome incarnations by which that
ultimate stage must be preceded. I know that there are young fellows, the sons and grandsons of
famous men, whose masters have instilled into them nobility of mind and moral refinement in their
schooldays. They have, perhaps, when they look back upon their past lives, nothing to retract; they
can, if they choose, publish a signed account of everything they have ever said or done; but they
are poor creatures, feeble descendants of doctrinaires, and their wisdom is negative and sterile.
We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the
wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us, for our wisdom
is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world. The lives that you admire, the
attitudes that seem noble to you are not the result of training at home, by a father, or by masters
at school, they have sprung from beginnings of a very different order, by reaction from the
influence of everything evil or commonplace that prevailed round about them. They represent a
struggle and a victory. I can see that the picture of what we once were, in early youth, may not be
recognisable and cannot, certainly, be pleasing to contemplate in later life. But we must not deny
the truth of it, for it is evidence that we have really lived, that it is in accordance with the laws of
life and of the mind that we have, from the common elements of life, of the life of studios, of
artistic groups-assuming that one is a painter-extracted something that goes beyond them."
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M.A. (English) Fourth Semester Examination (Year 2016)
Roll No.
English Language
Subject Code: MAEH-402
Paper Code: TMT-282
Time
: 3 Hrs.
M.Marks : 70
Q.No. 1
Attempt A or B.
A.
What is Morphology? What do you understand by the term Morpheme?
classification of Morphemes.
OR
B.
Attempt all the questions given below.
i)
Give a Morphological analysis of the following words:
Unknowingly, Unkindness
ii) What do you understand by 'Word Formation'?
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4 marks
2 marks
14 marks
Explain
iii) Give egs. of both 'Free' and 'bound morphemes'.
2 marks
iv) Write a note on Allomorphs.
2 marks
v) Distinguish class-changing suffixes from class-maintaining suffixes. Give
examples.
2 marks
2 marks
vi) Write a note on the use of prefixes in the formation of words in English.
Q.No. 2
Attempt A or B.
A.
What is meant by I.C. Analysis? Write a note on different methods of
I.C. Analysis.
OR
14 marks
representing
10 marks
B. i)
Explain the I.C. Analysis of simple, complex and compound
sentences.
ii) Make an I.C. Analysis of the following sentences by means of Treea)
I have been cursing my luck for several years.
b)
A young girl with an umbrella chased the boy.
2 marks
diagram.
2 marks
iii) Find out the ambiguity in the following sentencesa)
I like inspiring people.
b)
The committee's appointment was unjust.
Q.No. 3
Attempt A or B.
A. i)
What do you understand by a syllable? Explain it in detail.
ii) Explain onset and coda with examples.
10 marks
2 marks
iii) Give an example of the monosyllabic word in English with the following syllabic
structures.
2 marks
a)
C CC VC
b)
C C VCC
OR
B. i) Explain any two of the following.
6 marks
a) Word stress
b) Intonation
c) Strong and Weak forms.
Q.No. 4
ii) Mark the stress and intonation of the following sentences.
1.
He teaches English, doesn't he?
2.
She is beautiful. (But not cultured)
3.
Please pass the salt.
4.
What a lovely sight!
4 marks
iii) Give the strong and weak forms of the following.
a)
the
b)
he
4 marks
Attempt A or B.
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A.
B.
i)
ii)
iii)
iv)
v)
vi)
vii)
Q.No. 5
Explain types of sentences in English with examples.
OR
Transform the following sentences as directedThey elected him captain. (Passive)
He works in a factory near Ujjain. (Yes/No Question)
He reached the station in time. ('wh' question)
I asked you to keep quiet. (Question Tag)
The meeting is at ten in the hall. (Adverbial question)
John plays football. (Subjective question)
The police caught the thief (Objective question)
14 marks
(7x2=14 marks)
Attempt A or B.
A.
i)
B.
i)
ii)
iii)
iv)
v)
vi)
vii)
Write a note on any two of the following.
14 marks
Subordination
ii) Noun Phrase
iii) Concord
iv) Word Classes
OR
Analyze the following sentences as directed.
(7x2=14 marks)
The news is that the movie will be released shortly.
(Comment on the form and function of subordinate clause)
Give me some help and I'll work.
(Comment on the form and function of co-ordinate clause)
Close the window.
(Comment on the article features)
He spoke fluently.
(Find out the adverbial & it's function)
The man on the bridge is the inspector.
(Analyze the structure of NPs)
My sister who lives in Delhi is coming tomorrow.
(Comment on the relative clause)
He must have reached the station by now.
(Comment on the verbal group and state whether it is minimal/non-minimal,
finite/non-finite and auxiliary and main verbs and function performed by it.)
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M.A. English Fourth Semester Examination (Year 2016)
Roll No.
Indian Writings in English
Subject Code: MAEH-403
Paper Code: TMT-283
Time
: 3 Hrs.
M.Marks : 70
(3x5=15 Marks)
Q.No. 1
a)
Attempt any three annotations.
Give me to drink each joy and pain
which thine eternal hand can mete
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for my insatiate soul would drain
earth most bitter, utmost sweet.
b)
A noon for wild men, wild thought, wild love
To be here, far away, is torture, Wild feet
stirring up the dust, this hot noon at
my home in Malabar.
c)
To force the pace and never to be
Is not the way of those who study birds
Or woman. The best poets wait for
words. The hunt is not an exercise of will.
d)
We stood at it very well. I thought
Observed and put down copious notes
On things the peasants sold and bought
e)
The world will accept you, not her
Oh! the pain is going to feel when
She sees herself at eighteen or twenty
Thirty is unthinkable and what about forty or fifty.
f)
If I hadn't tasted the fruit of
knowledge, I could have gone on luring
in this paradise of your blessed society
of rules.
(11x5=55 Marks)
Q.No. 2
Discuss Sarojini Naidu vision of life as depicted in her poems.
OR
Summarize Kamala Das poem, "My Grand mothers House" in your own words.
Q.No. 3
What is Nissim Ezekiel Conception of Poetry?
OR
Critical Appreciation of Jayanta Mahapatra 'Hunger'.
Draw a character sketch of Tara.
OR
Bring out the meaning of existence as revealed in the play Evam Indrajeet by Badal Sucar.
Q.No. 4
Q.No. 5
Discuss Arundhati Roy 'God of Small Things' as a novel.
OR
Attempt to analyze the image of women as portrayed by Shashi Deshpande in 'A Matter of Time.'
Q.No. 6
Justify the title of the story 'A Temporate Matter' by Jhumpa Lahiri.
OR
Give a critical analysis of the story Jasoda- 'The Breast Giver'.
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M.A. English Fourth Semester Examination (Year 2016)
Roll No.
Indian Writings in English
Subject Code: MAEH-403
Paper Code: TMT-283
Time
: 3 Hrs.
M.Marks : 70
(3x5=15 Marks)
Q.No. 1
Attempt any three annotations.
a)
Give me to drink each joy and pain
which thine eternal hand can mete
for my insatiate soul would drain
earth most bitter, utmost sweet.
b)
A noon for wild men, wild thought, wild love
To be here, far away, is torture, Wild feet
stirring up the dust, this hot noon at
my home in Malabar.
c)
To force the pace and never to be
Is not the way of those who study birds
Or woman. The best poets wait for
words. The hunt is not an exercise of will.
d)
We stood at it very well. I thought
Observed and put down copious notes
On things the peasants sold and bought
e)
The world will accept you, not her
Oh! the pain is going to feel when
She sees herself at eighteen or twenty
Thirty is unthinkable and what about forty or fifty.
f)
If I hadn't tasted the fruit of
knowledge, I could have gone on luring
in this paradise of your blessed society
of rules.
(11x5=55 Marks)
Q.No. 2
Discuss Sarojini Naidu vision of life as depicted in her poems.
OR
Summarize Kamala Das poem, "My Grand mothers House" in your own words.
Q.No. 3
What is Nissim Ezekiel Conception of Poetry?
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Q.No. 4
OR
Critical Appreciation of Jayanta Mahapatra 'Hunger'.
Draw a character sketch of Tara.
OR
Bring out the meaning of existence as revealed in the play Evam Indrajeet by Badal Sucar.
Q.No. 5
Discuss Arundhati Roy 'God of Small Things' as a novel.
OR
Attempt to analyze the image of women as portrayed by Shashi Deshpande in 'A Matter of Time.'
Q.No. 6
Justify the title of the story 'A Temporate Matter' by Jhumpa Lahiri.
OR
Give a critical analysis of the story Jasoda- 'The Breast Giver'.
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M.A. (English) Fourth Semester Examination (Year 2016)
Roll No.
American Literature
Subject Code: MAEH-404
Paper Code: TMT-284
Time
: 3 Hrs.
M.Marks : 70
3x5=15 Marks
Q.No. 1
Annotate the following
a)
We will walk on our feet, we will work with our own hands,
we will speak our own minds. The study of letters shall be
no longer a name for pity, for doubt and for sensual
indulgence. The dread of man and the love of man shall be
a wall of defence and a wreath of joy around all.
OR
Let us consider for a moment what most of the trouble and
anxiety which I have referred to is about, and how much it
is necessary that we be troubled, or at least careful. It
would be some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life,
though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn
what are the gross necessaries of life and what methods
have been taken to obtain them.
b)
Since then it is centuries; but each
feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses' heads
were towards eternity
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OR
You stand at the black board daddy
in the picture I have of you
a cleft in your chin instead of your feet
but no less a devil for that not not
any less the black man who bit my pretty red heart in two
c)
Q.No. 2
What is there left but dependency all our lives? I know
so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't
prepared to occupy a position. I have seen such pitiful cases
in the south-barely tolerated spinster living upon the
grudging patronage of sister's husband or brother's wife.
OR
Let me tell you something. I have told you about the fourth
floor of the rooming house where I live. I think the rooms
are better as you go down, floor by floor, I guess they
are I do not know I do not know any of the people on the
third and second floors.
14 Marks
Write a critical analysis of Emerson's statement that "the office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise
and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances."
OR
Evaluate H.D. Thoreau as a transcendentalist.
14 Marks
Q.No. 3
Q.No. 4
Q.No. 5
Discuss Emily Dickinson as a poet of love.
OR
Write a critical appreciation of Lady Lazarus.
14 Marks
Write a brief essay on "The Glass Menagerie as a Memory Play."
OR
"The Zoo story focuses on the need for people to acknowledge and understand each other's
differences" elaborate this theme and give illustrations.
13 Marks
How does Steinbeck convey the ignorance and lack of refinement in the migrant labourers in Of
Mice and Men?
OR
Write a brief essay on Harper Lee as a novelist.
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