This document contains instructions and questions for a term-end examination in English literature from the beginnings to Chaucer. It is divided into three sections.
Section A contains two long answer questions worth 20 marks each from a choice of four. Section B contains shorter questions on phonetic transcription, phonology, and scansion worth between 1-5 marks each. Section C contains two short answer questions worth 5 marks each from a choice of four. Students must answer questions from each section for a total of 100 marks. Special credit is given for accuracy and relevance in responses, while marks may be deducted for errors in spelling, formatting, or handwriting legibility.
This document contains instructions and questions for a term-end examination in English literature from the beginnings to Chaucer. It is divided into three sections.
Section A contains two long answer questions worth 20 marks each from a choice of four. Section B contains shorter questions on phonetic transcription, phonology, and scansion worth between 1-5 marks each. Section C contains two short answer questions worth 5 marks each from a choice of four. Students must answer questions from each section for a total of 100 marks. Special credit is given for accuracy and relevance in responses, while marks may be deducted for errors in spelling, formatting, or handwriting legibility.
This document contains instructions and questions for a term-end examination in English literature from the beginnings to Chaucer. It is divided into three sections.
Section A contains two long answer questions worth 20 marks each from a choice of four. Section B contains shorter questions on phonetic transcription, phonology, and scansion worth between 1-5 marks each. Section C contains two short answer questions worth 5 marks each from a choice of four. Students must answer questions from each section for a total of 100 marks. Special credit is given for accuracy and relevance in responses, while marks may be deducted for errors in spelling, formatting, or handwriting legibility.
This document contains instructions and questions for a term-end examination in English literature from the beginnings to Chaucer. It is divided into three sections.
Section A contains two long answer questions worth 20 marks each from a choice of four. Section B contains shorter questions on phonetic transcription, phonology, and scansion worth between 1-5 marks each. Section C contains two short answer questions worth 5 marks each from a choice of four. Students must answer questions from each section for a total of 100 marks. Special credit is given for accuracy and relevance in responses, while marks may be deducted for errors in spelling, formatting, or handwriting legibility.
2. Answer any three of the following questions : B. D. P. 10 × 3 = 30 Term End Examination — December 2016 & June 2017 Elective Course a) Show your acquaintance with the Middle ENGLISH English Miracle plays. ( New Syllabus ) ( First Paper : From the Beginnings to Chaucer : b) How does the Wakefield Master treat the Literature and Language in Evolution ) theme of marriage in the ‘Second ( Enrolled from July 2015 ) Shepherd’s Play’ ? Time : Four Hours Full Marks : 100 ( Weightage of Marks : 70% ) c) Write a short essay on the Old English elegies with special reference to any two. Special credit will be given for accuracy and relevance in the answer. Marks will be deducted for incorrect d) What was the impact of the Norman spelling, untidy work and illegible handwriting. Conquest on the English language ? The weightage for each question has been indicated in the margin. e) Why do you think the manners of the Prioress are inappropriate to her position ? SECTION - A f) Assess the contributions of Alfred to Old 1. Answer any two of the following questions : English prose. 20 × 2 = 40 a) Assess the nature and extent of the 3. Answer any two of the following questions : Scandinavian influence on the English 5 × 2 = 10 Language. b) Show how the history of Bible translations a) Write a short note on The Anglo Saxon in English indicates the development of Chronicle. English prose in general. c) Write a short essay on Old English heroic b) Write a short note on the historical poetry. background of the Middle English period. d) Assess the contribution of Chaucer to English literature. c) Write a brief note on John Wycliff.
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d) Write briefly on the actual nativity play that 7. Identify and explain the figures of speech in any one of the following passages : 5 follows the mock-nativity comedy of the a) We look before and after, Wakefield Second Shepherds’ play. And pine for what is not : SECTION - B Our sincerest laughter 4. Phonetically transcribe any three of the following With some pain is fraught ; words & put the stress mark after transcription : Our sweetest songs are those that tell of 3+3 saddest thought. Blackbird, primary, govern, beauty, colour, mountain, reed, youth. b) Forlorn ! the very word is like a bell 5. Choose any two vowel phonemes and any two To toll me back from thee to my sole self ! consonant phonemes which occur in the Adieu ! the fancy cannot cheat so well following words and describe them : 1×4 As she is famed to do, deceiving elf. house, apple, eat, day, brother. 6. Scan any one of the following extracts, find the main metre and metrical variations, if any : 5 a) He prayeth best who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us He made and loveth all. b) Break, break, break At the foot of thy crags, O sea! But the tender grace of a day that is dead
