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BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER/ Semester Exam S.No. 2601 23ELGE3 (For candidates admitted from 2023-2024 onwards ) U.G. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER 2025 Part II- English GENERAL ENGLISH Time: Three hours Maxinsum: 75 marks SECTION A-(20 marks) Answer ALL the questions. I. (A) Choose the correct answer: (5x1=5) 1. What does Della sell to raise additional money? (a) Her locket (b) Her long hair (c) Her mother's wedding ring (d) Their wedding chain 2. Which colour mentioned in the passport in Telephone Conversation? (a) Brown (b) Red (c) White (d) West African Sepia 3. How can we live a better life according to WH Davies? (a) Money (b) Hard work (c) Leisure (d) Relationship 4. What is the meaning of the idiom "fish out of water"? (a) sorrow (b) death (c) loyalty (d) pain 5. What is the past participle for "speak"? (a) speak (b) spoken (c) speaking (d) spoke (B) Fill in the blanks: (5 x 1 = 5) 6. ________ is a master skill for personal and professio...

Q&A ON THEORY OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT / JEAN PIAGET/ CHILDHOOD PSYCHOLOGY/UGTRB/PGTRB/UGCNET/PGTRB/TNSET/TNTET/BEO EXAM CHILDHOOD PSYCHOLOGY Q&A ON THEORY OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT 1.      Who proposed the theory of Cognitive development? Ans: Jean Piaget. 2.      Who is Jean Piaget? Ans: Swiss psychologist. 3.      Jean Piaget was born and died in the year of ----------------. Ans: (1896 - 1980). 4.      When did he developed the theory of cognitive development? Ans: 1920s. 5.      Theory of cognitive development was first published in the year of ----------------. Ans: 1936. 6.      Theory of cognitive development was published in the work of ---------------. Ans:  The Origin of Intelligence in Children. 7.      What is Schema? Ans: Mental representation of images created by brain using a...

Q & A on PARADISE LOST BOOK - IX by John Milton ( PART - II)  "OF MAN'S FIRST DISOBEDIENCE AND THE FRUIT OF THAT FORBIDDEN TREE, WHOSE MORTAL TASTE BROUGHT DEATH INTO THE WORLD,                                                                 - JOHN MILTON 26) Who is 'Enemie of Mankind'?  Ans: Satan.  27) Write down praising words of Satan to Eve while introducing himself ?  Ans: ~ Sovvran, Mistress ~ Fairest resemblance of thy maker faire ~ Thy celestial Beautie adore ~ "A Goddess among God's, ador'd and serv'd  By Angels numberless, thy daily Train" 28) Who said these lines,  "What may this mean? Language of Man pronounc't By Tongue of Brute, and human sense exprest?" Ans: Eve when first met Satan.  29) What is the colour of forbidden fruit has mentioned by Satan?  Ans: Ruddie and Gold...

TNSET - MARCH 2024 / ENGLISH PAPER II -  MCQ ON TNSET ENGLISH LITERATURE QUESTION PAPER   1 __________ suggests the content : series of twelve eclogues. One for each month of the year. A : The Ruins of Time B : Mother Hubberd's Tale C : The Shepheards Calendar D : Colin Clouts Come home again 2 __________ was a biting satire on the Puritans, was modelled upon the adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. A : Don Juan B : Hudibras C : Mac Flecknoe D : Namby-Pamby 3 "Supposes," the First prose comedy published in 1566 was the basis of Shakespeare's __________. A : All's well that Ends well. B : The Two Gentlemen of Verona C : Taming of the Shrew D : Love's Labour's Lost. 4 __________, Sir Thomas Browne's confession of faith, is a curious mixture of religious faith and scientific scepticism. A : The Garden of Cyprus B : Pseudodoxia Epidemica C : Religio Medici D : Hydriotaphia : Urne Buriall t 5 Emerson calls two of the following writers : one as his re...

Q & A on PARADISE LOST BOOK - IX by John Milton ( PART - I)  1) Who is mentioned as  Angel Guest in paradise lost IX?  Ans: Raphael.  2) Who is mentioned as sin and her shadow?  Ans: Death and Misery.  3) Who is mentioned as 'Celestial Patroness' by Milton himself?  Ans: Urania.  4) Name the muse invoked by Milton in paradise lost?  Ans: Urania.  5) Mention the number of books; muse Urania was invoked in paradise lost?  Ans: Book 1,Book 7 and Book 9. 6) Urania is a muse of ____________. Ans: Muse of Astronomy.  7) Paradise lost was written in the form of _____________. Ans: unpremeditated verse.  8) What does unpremeditated verse meant?  Ans: Heroic verse without rhyme.  9) Name the meter used in paradise Lost?  Ans: Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter.  10) Name the star mentioned in paradise lost while Satan entered the Garden.  Ans: Hesperus Star.  11) Who is Guardian Angel of Eden?...

BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER -- ENGLISH LITERATURE S.No. 8098 P16 EN 11 (For candidates admitted from 2016-2017 onwards) M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER 2019. English - Major LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS Time: Three hours Maximum: 75 marks PART A-(10×2=20) Answer the following in a sentence or two each. 1 Define a word. 2 Write any two differences between spoken language and written language. 3. What is a diphthong? Give an example. 4. What is a dialect? 5. What is morphology? 6. What is synchronic study of language? 7. What is 'lexical category' in Structural Grammar? 8. What is the purpose of sociolinguistics? 9. What is dyslexia? 10. What is a "special purpose dictionary"? PART B-(5×5=25) Answer ALL questions, choosing either (a) or (b). 11. (a) Analyse the core features of human language. Or (b) Distinguish between human language and animal language. 12. (a) Discuss the relationship between gender and language. Or (b) Explain the vowel system in En...

BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER– ENGLISH LITERATURE S.No. 8101 P 16 EN 14 (For candidates admitted from 2016-2017 onwards) M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER 2019. English Major INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH Time: Three hours Maximum: 75 marks PART A-(10 × 2 = 20) Answer ALL questions.. 1. What is the mood of the poem "Our Casuarina Tree"? 2. What is the theme of "A Hot Noon in Malabar"? 3. What is the central idea of Discovery of India Chapter 5? 4. Why does Radhakrishnan consider nuclear weapons dangerous? 5. What is myth used in The Fire and the Rain? 6. How did Chandan cause the death of Tara? 7. What is the theme of Two Leaves and a Bud? 8. Why did Ira's husband desert her? 9. What is the childhood prophesy for Maya? 10. Who is Kamat in That Long Silence? PART B-(5×5=25) Answer ALL questions, choosing either (a) or (b). 11. (a) Explain Parthasarathy's description of the river in "River once". Or (b) Explain the theme of "Obituar...

Q & A on Poem 'OZYMANDIAS' by P.B.Shelley 1) The poem 'Ozymandias' was written in the year of ________. Ans: December 1817. 2) The poem 'Ozymandias' was published in the year of ________. Ans: 11 th January 1818. 3) Name the publishing paper issued the poem 'Ozymandias'.  Ans: The Examiner.  4) The Examiner is a ____________ paper of London.  Ans: A Sunday paper, on politics, domestic economy, and theatricals". 5) Which was the P. b. Shelley's work published under his pen name?  Ans: Ozymandias.  6) Mention the pen name of Shelley was published in the Examiner.  Ans: Glirastes. 7) Ozymandias was written in the form of ____________. Ans: Sonnet.  8) Why did Shelley wrote the poem 'Ozymandias'?  Ans: Shelley's friend told about the statue of Ozymandias and then they decided to write a poem about it as a friendly competition.  9) Who is Shelley's friend?  Ans: His name is Horace Smith and he is a banker.  10) Where d...

Q & A ON THOMAS KYD’S THE SPANISH TRAGEDY – PART IV 1) Who are the servants helped Balthazar and Lorenzo to kill Horatio?  Ans: Pedringano and Serberine.  2) Who is Serberine?  Ans: Balthazar's Servant.  3) Where did Horatio was murdered?  Ans: Horatio is murdered in the garden.  4) How did Horatio was murdered.  Ans: The murderers stab him to death and hang him on the tree.  5) Who found the body of Horatio?  Ans: Hieronimo and his wife Isabella.  6) What happened to Isabella?  Ans: She became mad after his son died.  7) What happened to Bellimperia?  Ans: Bellimperia was dragged away from the garden and imprisoned by Lorenzo.  8) Who got the bloody letter from Bellimperia?  Ans: Hieronimo.  9) Who told Pedringano to kill Serberine for gold?  Ans: Lorenzo wants to clear all the evidence of Horatio's murder and told Pedringano to kill Serberine.  10) What did Lorenzo promised to Ped...