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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 - 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. 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...

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...