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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. 4627                                                                         16 ACCEN4 (For candidates admitted from 2016–2017 onwards) B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL 2019. Part III — English – Major FICTION   Time : 3 hours                              Maximum : 75 marks SECTION — A (10 x 2 = 20) Answer ALL the questions. 1. How does David spend three years in Europe? 2. Who is Clara Peggotty? 3. Where does Jim meet the old crew? 4. Why was Jim’s mother anger at bones? 5. Who are the five seamen in the British ship ‘Neile’? 6. What are the major and minor characters in “Heart of Darkness”? 7. How many children do R...

    BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY SAMPLE QUESTION PAPER–ENGLISH LITERATURE S.No. 4645                                                                              16 ACCEN13 (For candidates admitted from 2016–2017 onwards) B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL 2019. Part III — English – Major INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH   Time : 3 hours                 Maximum : 75 marks SECTION — A (10 x 2 = 20) Answer ALL the questions. 1. In the end of the poem “The Harp of India” the poet says those hands are cold. What does it mean? 2. What is the debate in the poem “Love and Death”? 3. What is the poetic device used in the following line? “Remote and thorny like the heart’s dark floor”. 4. What do ‘Silk and White Petal’ refer to in the p...

  SAMPLE BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY QUESTION PAPER–ENGLISH LITERATURE S.No. 5743                                                                           16 ACCEN 9 (For candidates admitted from 2016–2017 onwards) B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, NOVEMBER 2021. Part III — English — Major SHAKESPEARE   Time : 3 hours           Maximum : 75 marks SECTION — A (10 x 2 = 20) Answer ALL the questions. 1. What are the four main plots of ―A Midsummer Night's Dream? 2. Who is the most important character in A Midsummer Night's Dream? 3. Why did Brutus kill Caesar? 4. How are Octavius and Caesar related? 5. What is king Lear’s tragic flaw? 6. Who is the tragic hero in king Lear? 7. Why Twelfth Night is considered as a comedy? 8. What is the moral of Twel...

UGC NET EXAM QUESTION AND ANSWER PAPER I (2015 ) TEACHING APTITUDE 1.      Greater the handicap of the students coming to the educational institutions, greater the demand on the: a)     Family b)     Society c)      Teacher d)     State   2.      What are the characteristics of continuous and comprehensive evaluation? a)     It increases the workload on students by taking multiple tests. b)     It replaces marks with grades c)      It evaluates every aspect of the student d)     It helps in reducing examination phobia   i)                    a, b, c and d ii)                 b and d iii)           ...