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University : Rani Channamma University
Degree : M.A
Department : English
Subject : Introduction to Study of Language & Literature
Document Type : Question Paper Pattern
Website : rcub.ac.in

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Study of Language & Literature Model Question Paper :

M. A. in English 2012-13(RCU New Syllabus):
1.6 Basic Core
Language Skills, Research Skills and Literary Historiography
Duration: 3 Hours
Max. Marks: 80

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SECTION – A
Q. I. Answer the following questions in a word or a phrase

1. What is scanning?
2. What is inferential comprehension?
3. What is an index of a book?
4. What does a thesaurus contain?
5. Name any one of the advantages of being into the canon.
6. What is the difference in the meaning of the word „literature? in the expressions „Folk Literature? and „Tourist Literature??
7. What, according to Wilson, is the Historical Interpretation of Literature?
8. What basic assumption about literary tradition informs the essays of T. S. Eliot and Herald Bloom?

9. Prune the redundant phrase in the following sentence :
Many uneducated citizens who have never attended school continue to vote for better schools.

10. Punctuate the following :
exhausted from answering the reporters questions Congressman Ellis squared her shoulders gritted her teeth and angrily retorted thats none of your business you morons. (2X10 = 20 Marks)

SECTION – B :
Q. No. II. Write short notes on any six of the following :
1. Internet as a Research Resource
2. Annotated Bibliography
3. Primary Sources
4. Hazards of Periodization
5. „Extrinsic? Approaches to Literary Historiography
6. Western debates around the concept of tradition
7. Reading Poetry
8. Evaluating Sources (6X5 = 30 Marks)

SECTION – C :
Q. No. III.
A. Given below are the sentences of a jumbled paragraph.
1) Rearrange the sentences and rewrite them to form a coherent paragraph.
2) Identify the topic sentence of the paragraph and underline it.
3) List the words / phrases in each sentence which served as clues / linkers to help you arrange the sentences in the order you have chosen.
4) Say whether each of the clues / linkers you have chosen is overt / covert.

1. He flew hours before reaching his target.
2. On the day of execution, Colonel, Paul W. Tibbets took off at a quarter to three in the morning.
3. The bombing of Hiroshima was executed after meticulous planning.
4. Thus the new nuclear age had begun, not with a bang but with a whimper.
5. But there was no bang or an explosion. Only a brownish-purple mist all around.
6. Then, the bomb was set to explode 2000 ft. above the town. (5 Marks)

B. Read the following paragraph carefully and answer the questions set on it :
“It?s a boy!” – magical words that give happiness to the entire family, to the mother-in-law, and to the mother who gave birth to the baby-boy. “It?s only a girl.” – words of dejection and disappointment that makes the entire family unhappy.

That?s our mind-set. We do not celebrate girls! Even in our mythology, only the birth of boys is mentioned. Parvati gave birth to two sons. Sita had her twins; Kunti and Madri produced the Pandavas and Karna; even goddesses never gave birth to daughters! Where have all the daughters gone?

Deep-rooted prejudices reinforce our attitudes towards girls. Even now, most Hindus believe that only the male can light the funeral pyre and guide the departing soul to heaven. It is also said that even a king will become a pauper if he has five daughters! Staying with their daughter after her marriage is considered to be below the dignity of parents. That?s our mind-set.

The situation may be changing but the change is very slow. The issue of sons or daughters continues to be important in our social structure formulated by men for their own advantage. That is irrespective of socio-economic status or caste or religion, the reaction to the arrival of a girl-child is : “It?s only a girl” or “Oh! Another Girl, if the earlier one too was a girl.

1. What is the reaction of a mother-in-law to the birth of a girl-child in a family?
2. Though the mother-in-law is a woman, why is she not happy about the birth of a girl-child?
3. What are the conventional reasons given for preferring baby boys?
4. Why is staying with one?s daughter after her marriage considered not desirable?
5. Why does the issue of sons or daughters continue to be important in our society? (5 Marks)

Q. No. IV : A. Make notes on the following passage :
Indian English literature began as an interesting by product of an eventful encounter in the late 18th century between a vigorous and enterprising Britain and a stagnant and chaotic India. The first problem that confronts the historian of this literature is to define its nature and scope clearly. The question has been made rather complicated owing to two factors: first, this of writing has, from time to time, been designated variously as „Indo Anglican literature?, „Indian Writing in English? and „Indo English literature (5 Marks)

B. Imagine that your teacher wants you to familiarize yourself with the history of Indian English literature. He tells you what books you should look for in the library. This is what he recommends : “K. R. S. Iyengar?s Indian Writing in English is the first ever history of Indian English literature. This comprehensive study was published in 1962 by the London branch of Asia Publishing House. However for an official history you must read Prof. M. K. Naik?s A History of Indian English Literature published by Sahitya Akademi in 1982. (5 Marks)

Q. No. IV. Analyse the use of diction, syntax, and imagery in the following passage.
Examine whether they have been integrated into the theme of the passage.
COKETOWN, to which Messrs. Bounderby and Gradgrind now walked, was a triumph of fact; it had no greater taint of fancy in it than Mrs. Gradgrind herself. Let us strike the key-note, Coketown, before pursuing our tune.

The M’Choakumchild school was all fact, and the school of design was all fact, and the relations between master and man were all fact, and everything was fact between the lying-in hospital and the cemetery, and what you couldn’t state in figures, or show to be purchaseable in the cheapest market and saleable in the dearest, was not, and never should be, world without end, Amen. (10 Marks)