phoenix of literature

BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER -- ENGLISH LITERATURE S.No. 8099 P 16 EN 12 (For candidates admitted from 2016-2017 onwards) M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER 2019. English Major MODERN LITERATURE I (1400-1660) Time: Three hours Maximum: 75 marks PART A-(10 × 2 = 20) Answer the following in a sentence or two each: 1.What does Chaucer soup about the altire of the Clerk of Oxford? 2. What does "Epithalamion" literally mean? 3. Why does Donne ask his ladylove to spare the flea? 4. What was the only gift God withheld from humans? 5. How does the fear of death affect men, according to Bacon? 6. Why does Jesus say that the poor in spirit are blessed? 7 What excuse does the governor nee to conGunsto all of Barabas estate? 8. In The White Devil has does Isabella die? 9. How does The Spanish Tragedy begin? 10. Why has Edward Knowell come to London? PART B (5×5=125) Answer ALL questions choosing either (a) or (b) in each 11. (a) How does Chaucer's Clerk of Oxford rep...

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...