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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – HISTORY

THIRD SEMESTER – NOVEMBER 2012

SO 3875 – SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN INDIA

 

 

Date : 10/11/2012            Dept. No.                                        Max. : 100 Marks

Time : 9:00 – 12:00

 

SECTION-A

 

Answer the following in 30 words each:                                                                                (10×2=20)

 

  1. What are the objectives of Chipko Movement?
  2. What is mobilization Theory?
  3. Elucidate the objectives of Brahmo Sabha.
  4. What is Crowd behavior?
  5. What do you mean by Social movement?
  6. What is the role of Aligarh movement in religious activities?.
  7. What is Sathya shodhak samaj?
  8. What does the term Bachao Andolan mean?
  9. What do you mean by social change?
  10. What is revolt?

SECTION-B

 

 Answer any FIVE of the following in about 300 words each:                                           (5×8=40)

 

  1. Write a note on Dr.Ambedkar’s  role in dalit struggle.
  2. Elucidate the Marxist dialectical framework in social movement.
  3. Bring out the religious reforms of Arya Samaj.
  4. Write a brief note on Narmada Bachao Andolan.
  5. Enumerate the characteristics of backward class movement.
  6. Explain the types of Social movements.
  7. Describe the social and religious reforms of Aligarh movement.

Section – C

 

Answer any TWO of the following in 1200 words each:                                                     (2×20=40)

 

  1. Analyze the theories of Social movements in detail.
  2. Highlight the contribution of S.N.Guru in uplifting the Ezhavas.
  3. Explain the role of women in Chipko movement.
  4. Examine the various phases of the Non- Brahmin movement.

 

 

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Loyola College M.A. English April 2004 Translation Question Paper PDF Download

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2004

EL 1950/LE 752 – TRANSLATION

 

Date        : 20.04.04                                                                                                                 Max     : 100 marks

Duration  : 9 – 12 noon                                                                                                                       Hours   : 3 hrs

  1. Answer any FOUR of the following in about 50 words each. (4 x 5 = 20 marks)
  1. What is translation?
  2. Different types of translation.
  3. What is untranslatability?
  4. Difficulties involved in use of translation in computer terms.
  5. Transliteration and transcreation.
  6. Spell out the requisites to be a translator.
  1. Answer any THREE of the following in about 200 words each. (3 x 10 = 30 marks)
  1. Translation Equivalences
  2. Problems involved in translation of prose and solutions.
  3. Culture and translation.
  4. Translation in Language teaching.
  5. How does linguistics help an effective translation?

III. 12. Translate the following poem into Tamil.                                                                                (10 marks)

THE ATHEIST’S CONFESSIONS

At 13 I believed in rose petals

Strewn at the earth-god’s feet.

Agarbatti aromas made me heady

And I ate prasad only after a bath.

 

At 14 my purse got slashed

in the temple crowds.

 

At fourteen-and-a-half I began to wonder.

The gods no longer smiled

when I prayed. They couldn’t.

They were idols of stone.

 

Fifteen, and the Beatles

Became my gods. I grew heady

On Chanel 25, and ate

fish-fingers between sips of gin.

 

On world Religion Day,

I made a speech.

God didn’t exist, I said.

I was 18, and worshipped myself.

 

At 20, the rose petals were on my cheeks

and in my hair and in the bouquets

he brought when he took me out to dinner.

 

Then he took a blade and cut

the flowers from their stems.

I wilted – he grew heady

on the scent.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Twenty-two. I no longer worship

myself, or him.

 

I look at the sculptures

In the puja room

and wonder: are the gods faintly

Beginning to smile again?

 

 

 

  1. Translate the following poem lines into English.                (10 marks)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Translate the following text into English and mention some of the difficulties you have encountered.

(10 marks)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Translate the following text into Tamil.

(10 marks)

Wildlife means more than just, tigers and elephants. Wildlife refers to any undomesticated animal and uncultivated plants. It is difficult to think of wildlife in an urban environment. But, we do share space with wildlife regardless of where we live. Ignorance is a major reason why people do not appreciate nature and wildlife. As the members of a natural community, our well being depends on the existence of life forms. We need a diversity of wildlife around us, because each species plays a key role. For example, life forms are responsible for creating oxygen, disposing of waste, and pollinating crops. In a world where countless life forms become extinct every year, there’s an urgent need for us to understand that everything is connected. None of the five million species on earth, including Homo sapiens, can survive without each other or without healthy habitat. We’ve built cities and towns for people to live in. Now, it’s time that we made the cities more liveable for wildlife too.

 

  1. Translate the following advertisement.                  (5 marks)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Translate the following texts.               (2 x 2 ½ = 5 marks)

 

  1. Make hay while the sun shines.
  2. Iah; tUk; tiu mkhthir fhj;jpUf;fhJ/

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Loyola College M.A. English April 2004 Sociolinguistics Question Paper PDF Download

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2004

EL 2802/LE 824 – SOCIOLINGUISTICS

 

Date      : 07.04.04                                                                                                                          Max   : 100 marks

Duration: 1 – 4 pm                                                                                                                         Hours : 3 hrs

 

  1. Answer all the questions in about 100 words each:          (4 x 5 = 20 marks)

 

  1. Define functional types of language.
  2. Write a short note on register as a sociolinguistic factor.
  3. Briefly explain and illustrate the concept “verbal deprivation” with regards to Non-Standard English or Black English.
  4. Give examples for “mother-tongue expressions” of the non-native speakers in English.

 

  1. Answer any four of the following in about 200 words each: (4 x 10 = 40 marks)

 

  1. Explain any three features of speech event.
  2. Write an explanatory note on the family tree model.
  3. How do you account for various dialects in a language?
  4. “Language planning has become part of modern nation-building because a noticeable trend in the modern world is to make language and nation synonymous.” Following the statement of Wardhaugh, illustrate the various kinds of language planning. Explain the different factors involved in “standardization”.

 

  1. Here is a conversation between a husband and wife presented by Garfinkel. Try to elucidate how the participants understood what they were talking about. Detail the inferences and the implied meanings. Sort out a paradigm like the ethnography of communication to authenticate your answers.

 

The wife asks the husband, “Did you take him (our son) to the record store?’ leads to the following exchange with her husband.

Husband          : No, to the shoe repair shop.

Wife                : What for?

Husband          : I got some new shoelaces for my shoes.

Wife                : Your loafers need new heels badly.

 

  1. Try to design an experiment that will either confirm (or disconfirm) the existence of restricted and elaborated codes. Give examples from your own language or the discussions in the article. Take it into account the ideas of Bernstein like, position-oriented and person-oriented families, formal-code and public code, and social groups.

 

III. Answer Two of the following in about 400 words each:                                                                        (2 x 20 = 40 marks)

 

  1. Explain speech as social interaction as explained by R.A.Hudson.

OR

Define lexical choice and lexical patterning  with reference to code mixing and code switching.

 

 

 

 

 

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  1. Illustrate the views of Whorf, on the basis of how language determines the way in which the speakers of that language view the world from the passage given below.

“the background linguistic system (in other words, the grammar) of each language is not merely a reproducing instrument for voicing ideas but rather is itself the shaper of ideas, the program and guide for the individual’s mental activity, for his analysis of impressions, for his synthesis of his mental stock in trade. Formulation of ideas is not an independent process, strictly rational in the old sense, but it’s a part of particular grammar, and differs, from slightly to greatly, between different grammars…The world is presented in kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds- and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds… We cut nature up and organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely we are parties to an agreement to organize in this way- an agreement that holds throughout our speech community and is codified in the patterns of our language.”

(OR)

 

-Analyse the following poem sociolinguistically, bringing out the linguistic and societal factors and implications:

 

My mother told me that she

Learnt to conserve and preserve

From Gandhi,

Who would use a pencil till it had become only a butt

But would put the butt in holder

And use it till it died.

No wonder I said his handwriting was so but that he

Could not read it himself,

Dear old man!

 

Now in aspiring middle-age, I have not one shirt but

Two dozen, mostly gifted from sugar-daddy in the land of the dollars

Not one trouser but a variety of them Levis to shorts to baggy ones,

Not one cycle but a motorcycle and a motorcar

And a wife and kids each with his and her

Clothes, property, things;

No Gandhi here.

O how I yearn to give away and do

My Haj thing,

Or Tirupathi thing or

Something which will make me

Bald as the dear old man.

 

 

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Loyola College M.A. English April 2004 New Literature In English Question Paper PDF Download

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2004

EL 1800/LE 718 – NEW LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

 

Date        : 03.04.04                                                                                     Max    : 100 marks

Duration : 9 – 12 noon                                                                                            Hours  : 3 hrs

 

PART – A

 

  1. Answer any FOUR in 50 words each :    (4 x 3 = 12 marks)

 

  1. “I am the twinkle of a jewel

But he is the kind – quarters of a lion”

Bring out the significance of these lines

 

  1. “The gorilla wrestles with the superman”

Comment on the contrasting images of this line.

 

  1. “The great eagle lifts its wings from the dream

And the shells of childhood are scattered.”

Consider the figures of speech in these lines.

 

  1. “Caught in the clash of counter claims and charges

When not in the niche others have left,

We fall”

What event in history is referred to here? Explain.

 

  1. “This means that I am greater than

The fox of the undergrowth”

How does it reverse at the end of the play?

 

  1. Answer any TWO in 150 words each (2 x 9 = 18 mks)

 

  1. How does Nyerere differentiate the African Socialism from Euro-centric socialism?
  2. Identify the themes of West Indian Poetry with examples.
  3. Write short notes on any TWO:
  1. a) Chume b) Ekwefi        c) Ikemefuna   d) Brother Jero

 

III. Answer any ONE in 300 words:                                                                         (1 x 20 = mks)

 

  1. Discuss the themes and concerns of New Literatures in English with examples.
  2. Consider the techniques of Wole Soyinka from the study of the two plays prescribed for your study.

 

PART – B

 

  1. Answer any FOUR in 50 words each:               (4 x 3 = 12 maks)

 

  1. “There are differences

Of Course: the lack of reliable charts; . . .”

What is the point of  Comparison here?

 

 

  1. “To the tumultuous throng

Of the sky his cold and passionate song.”

Explain the paradox in these lines.

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  1. “The learned doubt, the chatter of cultured apes

Which is called civilization over there”.

Account for the poet’s vehement denunciation.

 

  1. “The trap of time surprised my heart-“

How did time surprise the poet?

 

  1. “To be simple is not a simple thing.”

Why does the poet say so?

 

  1. Answer any TWO in 150 words each. (2x 9 = 18 mks)

 

  1. Discuss A Prairie Water Colour as a nature poem.
  2. Critically examine Clock and Heart as a metaphysical poem.
  3. How effectively is the mood of alienation evoked in House and hand?

 

III. Answer any ONE in 300 words:                                                                    (1 x 20 = 20 mks)

 

  1. What are the characteristics of a postmodern novel found in Surfacing?
  2. What kind of didactic role does a novelist have according to chinua Acheb?

 

 

 

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Loyola College M.A. English April 2004 Mass Communication Question Paper PDF Download

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2004

EL 2950/LE 853 – MASS COMMUNICATION

 

Date       : 14.04.04                                                                                                                  Max  : 50 marks

Duration : 1 – 3 pm                                                                                                                 Hours : 2 hrs

 

THE PAPER IS FOR 2 hours ONLY. INVIGILATORS KINDLY NOTE THIS.

 

SECTION – A

 

  1. Answer the following in a sentence or two: (10 x 1 = 10 mks)

 

  1. What are the different kinds of mass media?
  2. What are the two types of news stories?
  3. Distinguish the two kinds of Journalism with examples.
  4. What are the major departments in a newspaper?
  5. Mention the major components of communication process.
  6. Point out any four objectives in communication.
  7. What are the 4 parts of a newspaper?
  8. Enumerate the major roles played by the mass media.
  9. Mention the different stages in communication.
  10. When was Prasar Bharathi introduced?

 

SECTION – B

 

  1. Answer any FOUR of the following in 150 words each: (4 x 5 = 20 mks)

 

  1. Explain the functions of mass media.
  2. List out the major principles of journalistic ethics evolved by the Press Council of India. How effectively are they followed?
  3. Attempt a critical evaluation of the Press in India, by discussing its power to bring about social and political change and economic development.
  4. What is the scope of Radio in India? What are its special advantages as mass medium?
  5. Discuss the lay out strategy, communication strategy and language strategy employed in a print/electronic ad.
  6. What are the features of a good daily?

 

III. Answer any ONE of the following in  500 words:                                                           (1 x 20 = 20 mks)

 

  1. How important is the role played by Mass Communication in our society? Illustrate your answer with reference to the uses of the mass media in India.
  2. Discuss the impact of mass media in shaping the public opinion during elections and at times of political or constitutional crisis.
  3. What is News? What is the goal of a news story? What are the elements and characteristics of news in Newspapers? How are they different from those of electronic media?

 

 

 

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Loyola College M.A. English April 2004 Literary Criticism Question Paper PDF Download

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2004

EL 4801/LE 1021 – LITERARY CRITICISM

 

Date       : 03.03.04                                                                                                                       Max  : 100 marks

Duration : 1 – 4 pm                                                                                                                      Hours: 3 hrs

 

PART – A

 

  1. WRITE SHORT NOTES ON ANY FIVE OF THE FOLLOWING:                                (5 x 8 = 40 mks)

 

  1. New criticism offered different reading methods to the lover of literature.
  2. Structuralism and post-structuralism.
  3. Paradox as a critical tool.
  4. The value of classicism according to Hulme.
  5. Cull out the salient features of Expressive theory.
  6. Write a short note on rhythm, recurrence, ritual in Nature.
  7. Write a paragraph on the principle of meaning with specific reference to I.A.Richards.
  8. How does Freud apply the model of psycho-analysis to creative writing?

PART  – B

 

  1. WRITE AN ESSAY ON THE FOLLOWING IN ABOUT 300 WORDS EACH:                                                                          (2 x 20 = 40 mks)

 

  1. Is criticism just another kind of language as Barthes argues? Provide textual evidence.

(or)

  1. Examine the Concept and application of Realism in Contemporary fiction according to Raymond Williams.

 

  1. a. Total objectivity is an impossibility to Wayne Booth – substantiate your argument

(or)

  1. Compare and contrast M.H. Abrams’ “Objective Theory” and Frye’s “Archetypal Approach”.

 

III. Attempt a Practical Criticism of the following poem employing the Critical theories and tools at your disposal. (300 words)                                                             (20 mks)

 

To My Dear and Loving Husband

 

If ever two were one, then surely we.

If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;

If ever wife was happy in a man,

Compare with me, ye women, if you can.

I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold

Or all the riches that the East do the hold.

My love is such that rivers cannot quench,

Nor ought but love I can no way repay,

The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray.

Then while we live, in love let’s so persevere.

That when we live no more, we may live ever.

– ANNE BRADSTREET

 

 

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Loyola College M.A. English April 2004 Linguistics II Question Paper PDF Download

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

THIRD SEMESTER – APRIL 2004

EL 3801/LE 924 – LINGUISTICS II

 

Date       : 17.04.04                                                                                                                      Max   : 100 marks

Duration : 9 – 12 noon                                                                                                                            Hours : 3 hrs

Part A

  1. Answer any TWO of the following:                 (10 x 2 = 20 marks)

 

  1. Write short notes on the following.
    1. morphemes b) accent, c) phonology, d) syllable
  2. How do sounds of speech and voice generate from our body? Explain with diagrams.
  3. Explain the place and manner of articulation with the table and description.
  4. What status does the English language enjoy in India? Analyse how and why.

 

  1. Answer the following (any one). (15 marks)

 

  1. Mark the patterns of into nation in the following passage and justify your answer. Do not transcribe.

A: How was the cassette and CD release functions?

B: Great; why didn’t you come?

A: I was held up by some commitments.

B: ‘U’ know you missed the lovely speeches.

A: Did I? How were they?

B: Hilarious must be the word.

A: How were the audience basically

B: They were enjoying every bit of it.

(OR)

  1. A: Are you looking forward to the elections

B: Yes, but?

A: But what?

B: People are gradually disillusioned

A: May be because of the pit falls in the system.

B: Is there a way out for India.

A: Yes. By an optimistic revolution at all levels.

B: You sound ideal, but if only it becomes real?!

 

III. 07. Attempt a phonological analysis of the following poem commenting on the interplay of sound and sense, stress and rhythm and the use of alliteration assonance.                                                                                 (15 marks)

 

Lead, kindly light amid the circling gloom,

Lead Thou me on;

The night is dark, and I am far from home

Lead Thou me on

 

Keep Thou my feet, I do not ask to see

The distant seene, one step enough for me

I was not ever thus nor prayed that Thou

shouldn’t load me on;

I loved to choose and see my path; but now

Lead Thou me on

I love the gainsh dary, and, spite of fears

Provide ruled my will; remember not past years

So long Thy power has me, sure it still will lead me on.

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PART B

 

 

  1. Write an essay on ONE of the following in about 400 words.   (20 marks)

 

  1. Explain any three Politeness Principles.
  2. ‘Cohesion is a semantic unit of discourse’. Explain.

 

  1. Answer any Three of the following in about 150 words each.  (3 x 5 = 15)

 

  1. What is illocutionary force?
  2. Explain the transformational function of language.
  3. Explain ‘Current speaker selects the next’ in a discourse.
  4. Analyse Maxim of manner with illustration.
  5. Discuss any two aspects of speech act.
  6. Explain Tact Maxim.

 

 

  1. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below: (3 x 5 = 15)

 

She wore a dirty white sari with a red border. On one side of her nose glistened a diamond nose ring and she had several gold bangles on her arms. She had been talking to the bearer until Sir Mohan had summoned him inside. As soon as he had gone, she had hailed a passing  railway coolie.

“Where does the zenana stop?”

“Right at the end of the platform.”

The coolie flattened his turban to make a cushion, hoisted the steel trunk on his head, and moved down the  platform. Lady Lal picked up her brass tiffin carrier and ambled along behind him. On the way she stopped a hawker’s stall to replenish her silver betel leaf cas, and then joined the coolie. She sat down on her steel trunk(which the coolie had put down) and started talking to him

“Are there trains very crowded on these lines?”

“These days all trains are crowded, but you’ll find room in the zenana”.

“Then I might as well get over the bother of eating”.

Lady Lal opened the brass carrier and took out a bundle of cramped chappatis and some mango pickle.  While she ate, the coolie sat opposite her on his haunches, drawing lines in the gravel with his finger.

“Are you travelling alone, sister?”

“ No I am with my master, brother. He is in the waiting room. He travel in the first class”

 

  1. Identify Exophoric and Endophoric references in the passage and explain how they help in achieving cohesion.
  2. Explain the field, mode and tenor of the passage.
  3. Cull out elements of Speech Act and explain their significance.

 

 

 

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Loyola College M.A. English April 2004 Indian Literature In English Question Paper PDF Download

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2004

EL 1801/LE 719 – INDIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

Date       : 15.04.04                                                                                                                  Max  : 100 marks

Duration : 9 – 12 noon                                                                                                                         Hours: 3 hrs

 

  1. Answer the following in about 50 words each with interpretations of the given lines. (10 x 2 = 20 marks)
  2. The true poet suffers from aphasia.
  3. After twenty hours

It lost its sting

  1. Time lifts the curtain unawares,

And sorrow looks into her face

  1. I am my father now.
  2. Nothing stays out; daughters

Get married to short lived idiots.

  1. And don’t I do my puja properly, Go on

Tell me. I bathe every morning and then

I sit here for my puja, Don’t I

  1. She dared threaten me! What can she do to me?

I am a good woman. Right’s on my side?

I’ve always been virtuous. She can’t do a thing to me.

  1. It’s more or less the same crowd that

Patronises these places and my quarrel

With it is that it is merely culture –

Consuming, not culture – learning

  1. The regional cultures have hardly any interest in one

another and are more involved in their own identity questions

Than in those of an all – India culture.

  1. I think time has turned and we must now copy some of the ways

of the Christians  in order to propagate our religion among the Buddhist people.

  1. Answer five of the following in about 150 words each:             (5 x 8 = 40 marks)
  2. What makes Kamala Das come down so hard on the world of males.
  3. Give a list of the observations that Ramanujam makes about the traditional home.
  4. Why, according to Parthasarathy has, poetry going commercial?
  5. What universal truth does the Pardha Nashin discover in her own life?
  6. Contrast the characters of Laksmi and champa?
  7. Evam Indrajit is a typical Indian play. Justify this statement.
  8. Comment on the chief character of the

III. Write an essay on one of the following in about 400 words:                                         (1 x 20 = 20 marks)

  1. Show that Tagore’s’ poem ‘The Child’ moves from darkness to light.
  2. Vijay Tendulkar is preoccupied with the problems of the middle class in his play Sakharam, the Binder. Explain
  3. Mulk Raj Anand is a compassionate writer. Discuss this from the Untouchable. Is he the voice of the novelist?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  1. Attempt any ONE of the following in about 400 words. (1 x 20 = 20 marks)
  2. What are Khushwant Sing’s musings on India?
  3. Show how Toru Dutt uses nature as a back drop for portraying human emotions
  4. Explore the historical events that Sri Aurobindo has incorporated in the poem ‘The Tiger and the Deer’.
  5. Bring out the socio-political concerns expressed by Henry Derzio in ‘The Harp of India’.
  6. Make a study of R.K. Narayan as a novelist.
  7. Describe the kind of anguish that you perceive in Anita Desai’s ‘Voices in the lily’
  8. Discuss the use of symbols in Kamala Markandaya’s ‘A Handful of Rice’.
  9. Examine the essential features that make Indian Writing in English singular

 

 

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Loyola College M.A. English April 2004 European Literature Question Paper PDF Download

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2004

EL 2951/LE 854 – EUROPEAN LITERATURE

 

Date       :  16.04.04                                                                                                                     Max   : 100 marks

Duration :  1 – 4 pm                                                                                                                     Hours : 3 hrs

 

  1. Answer any 5 not omitting any section.                 (8 x 5 = 40 marks)

 

 

SECTION – A

 

Explain the following quotations in detail with reference to the context.

 

  1. And while you suffer, none suffers more than I

You have your several griefs, each for himself;

But my heart bears the weight of my own and yours

And all my people’s sorrows.

  1. For I can tell you

No man possesses the secret of divination

And I have proof.

  1. If you too wish to make the climb,

A spirit worthier than I must take you;

  1. I saw the shade of the one who must have been

The coward who had made the great refusal.

 

SECTION – B

 

  1. For it is a fact of Nature that the Soul is raised by true sublimity, it gains a proud step upwards, it is filled with joy and exultation, as though itself had produced what it hears.
  2. Men are carried aside, as if under strong drink, into expressions of feeling which have nothing to do with the subject, but are personal to themselves and academic:
  3. Now these are five different sources, so to call them, of lofty style, which are the most productive;
  4. For beautiful words are, in a real and special sense, the light of thought.

 

  1. Answer any 4 not omitting any section.                  (4 x 15 = 60 marks)

 

SECTION – A

 

  1. Do you agree that Don Quixote ‘dissociates itself from its author’s intention and leads a life of its own’?
  2. Show how Dante employs symbolism in Inferno.
  3. Comment on the theme of sight and insight in Oedipus Rex.

 

SECTION – B

 

  1. “Longinus’  “on the Sublime” brings out the best of a work of art and an artist.” – Discuss.
  2. “Nora has neither understood her father’s love nor her husband’s concern’. – Elucidate
  3. How do Jung and Freud reveal the personality of an artist?

 

 

 

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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FOURTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2004

EL 4950/LE 1053 – ESSAY

 

Date      : 12.04.04                                                                                                                       Max   : 100 marks

Duration: 1 – 4 pm                                                                                                                      Hours : 3 hrs

 

 

Plan and write an essay on any ONE of the following in about 2000 words.

 

  1. A study of Shakespeare’s TRAGEDIES OR COMEDIES.

 

  1. The salient features of Victorian novels.

 

  1. The study of philosophy and literature.

 

  1. Indian Writing in English: an overview.

 

  1. American Literature: an overview

 

  1. The Impact of mass Communication in Literature.

 

  1. English Language Teaching in India.

 

  1. A critical analysis of the post modern literature

 

  1. Women’s writing as a challenging development.

 

  1. A study of 20th century poetry or novels or Drama.

 

  1. The Romantic Age as the age of rejuvenation.

 

  1. The impact of war on war poets.

 

  1. Analyse any piece or pieces of literature relating them to their social, political and religious characteristics of their age.

 

  1. The Puritans and the Metaphysicals – with a special reference to major poets.

 

 

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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FIRST SEMESTER – APRIL 2004

EL 1802/LE 720 – COMMUNICATION & LEADERSHIP

 

Date       : 19.04.04                                                                                                          Max  : 100 marks

Duration : 9 – 12 noon                                                                                                               Hours: 3 hrs

PART – A

  1. Answer the following in about 50 words (5 x 2 = 10 marks)
  2. What is ‘realistic expectation’?
  3. What is meant by ‘empathic listening’?
  4. Define ‘self-Concept’
  5. Write a note on ‘self-disclosure’.
  6. What are the characteristics of an ‘effective group’?
  7. Attempt the following (2 x 6 = 12 marks)
  8. Read the following situation and write reflective listening responses:
    1. Reflecting Content Responses
    2. Reflecting Feeling Responses
    3. Reflecting Meanings Responses

Situation: I wish John would stop borrowing my books without asking. Every time I want to do some research,  the books I need are not here.

 

  1. Study the given situation and the five possible behavioural responses carefully and choose the appropriate response that would possibly reduce the dispute. State your reasons for your choice.

 

Situation: When you become angry at a friend you would:

  1. Just explode without giving it much thought
  2. Try to smooth things over with a good story
  3. Remove yourself from the situation
  4. Express your anger and invite him or her to respond.
  5. Try to compensate for your anger by acting the opposite of what you are feeling

III. Answer any ONE of the following in about 300 words.                                        (1 x 13 = 13 marks)

  1. What are the functional roles which an effective participant has to play in a group Discussion?
  2. What points will you keep in mind while presenting a speech?

PART – B

  1. Answer any FOUR of the following in about 150 words each. (4 x 5 = 20 marks)

Give illustrations.

  1. Pro human values
  2. Creativity
  3. Victim of a situation
  4. Dialogical Communication
  5. Emotional Intelligence
  6. Primary and Secondary feelings
  7. Answer the following in about 200 words each. (2 x 10 = 20 marks)
  8. State the different leadership traits with illustrations.
  9. How can the HR skills convert a manager into a leader?

 

 

 

 

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PART – C

VI Answer any five of the following in about 100 words each.                                                 (5 x 5 = 25 marks)

 

  1. Write a short note on Reengineering as an aspect of TQM.
  2. Is ‘Employee Privacy Issues’ ethical? Explain.
  3. Choose any one Internal Set Factor of Perception and explain it.
  4. What is Achievement Motive?
  5. Explain Cognitive Framework.
  6. Globalisation is understood with a prefix. Choose one and explain it.
  7. What are the two faces of power?

 

 

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Intricate European Mission Goes Hunting for a Comet

 

 

For a Soldier’s Freeting Family, a Digital Map of Baghdad.

 

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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2004

EL 2801/LE 823 – BRITISH LITERATURE(1500 – 1670)

 

Date        : 05 .04.04                                                                                                                    Max   : 100 marks

Duration  : 1- 4 pm                                                                                                                     Time  : 3 hrs

PART – I

 

  1. Answer the following questions in not more than 50 words each. (10 x 2 = 20 marks)

 

  1. Ay fue of fresshe flowers, white and reede

Synging he was, or floytynge, al the day

-What is your comment on this character’s leisure habits?

 

  1. No wette his fyngerss in hir sauce depe

Wel konde she carie a morsal and wel kepe.

-Is this behaviour justified?

 

  1. The lower still I fall only supreme

In misery such joy ambition finds

-Why does this character find his fall “in misery”?

 

  1. But at my back I always hear

Times winged chariot hurrying near

-Why is there such a hurry?

  1. Call us what you will we are made such by try love call her one, me another fly

-Describe the mood of the poet.

  1. All her particular worth grows to this sum—

She stains the time past, lights the time to come.

-Throw light on this observation.

 

  1. That known, I’ll find scorpions to string my whips

And fix her in a general eclipse.

-Comment upon the desire of the speaker.

 

  1. For a lie faces God and shrinks from man.

-Why does the author feel so?

 

  1. Some books are to be tasted, others to be

Swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested

-Explain the implied meaning in these lines.

 

  1. I say to you likewise there will be more joy in

Heaven over one sinner who repents than over

Ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance.

-Bring out the significance of these lines.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  1. Translate the following passage into modern

 

  1. English and comment on the underline words.            (8 marks)

 

And bisihi gan for  the soules preye

of  hem that yat him wherewith to scoleye

of studie took he moost care and moost heede

Nought a word spark he moore than was neede

And that was seyd in forme and revenence

And short and quyk and ful of hy sentence

sowrynge in moral vertu was his speche

And gladly worlde he leane and gladly teche

 

 

PART – II

 

III. Attempt any FOUR in about 200 words each choosing at least ONE from each section.

(4 x 8 = 32 marks)

SECTION – A

 

  1. Analyse the art of story telling in “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale”.
  2. Compare and contrast Prothalamion and Epithalamion of Edmund Spenser.
  3. How does the Prologue reveal Chaucer’s Society?

SECTION – B

 

  1. Critically analyse the reasons for the damnation of Dr. Faustns.
  2. Bring out the features of Senecan elements in The Spanish Tragedy.
  3. What are the arguments of Philip Sidney in placing poetry superior to philosophy and History.

 

PART – III

 

  1. Answer any TWO in not more than 500 words each choosing one question from each section.

 

(2 x 20 = 40 marks)

SECTION – A

 

  1. Are we devoid of Satans among us in the 21st century? Answer this from the perspective of Milton’s Satan of Paradise Lost.
  2. Analyse the concept of love and the metaphysical qualities in Donne and Marvel.

 

SECTION – B

 

  1. Critically analyse The Duchess of Malfi as a revenge tragedy.
  2. Give a critical appreciation of Bacon’s essays “Of Studies” and “Of Truth”.

 

 

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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

FOURTH SEMESTER – APRIL 2004

EL 4802/LE 1022 – BRITISH LITERATURE (VICTORIAN & 20TH CENTURY)

 

Date       : 06.04.04                                                                                                                       Max   : 100 marks

Duration : 1 – 4 pm                                                                                                                     Hours : 3 hrs

  1. Answer the following questions in not more than 50 words each. (10 x 2 = 20 marks)
  1. Like that strange song I heard Apollo sing

While  Ilion like a mist rose into towers

* Explain the allusion in the passage.

  1. She hope only

Of empty men

* Explain the context and comment on the ambiguity

  1. And the fire that breaks from thee, then a billion

Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my Chevalier’.

* Comment on the use of the pun and explain the meaning of the word ‘fire’.

  1. Can’t afford them, governor. Neither Could you if  you were as poor as me. Not that I mean any harm, you know. But if Eliza is going to have a bit out of this, why not me too?

* How does this passage throw light on the character of the speaker?

  1. You be careful: give him a flower for it. There is a block here behind taking down. Every blessed word you are saying.

* Who is referred to as a ‘bloke’? What is his purpose in noting down the ‘blessed word’?

  1. Comment on the metaphor of the motorcycle in the poem by Thorn Gunn
  2. What does Becket imply through the endless waiting of his protagonists?
  3. Men manufacture both machine and soul,

And use what they imperfectly control.

* Explain the irony implicit in these lines

  1. It seemed that our two natures blent

Into a sphere from youthful sympathy,

Or else, to alter Plato’s parable,

Into the yolk and white of the one shell.

* What is the Platonic parable?

  1. O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer,

Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?

O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,

* How can we know the dancer from the dance? Explain the lines

 

  1. Attempt any FIVE of the following questions in not more than 200 words each choosing atleast TWO from each section: SECTION – A                                               (5×8 = 40 marks)

 

  1. Sketch the characters of Miss Havisham in Great Expectations
  2. Comment briefly on the role played by ‘Chance’ in The Return of the Native.
  3. In Murder in the Cathedral the Tempters are exteriorizations of Becket’s inner conflicts, present and past.
  4. Discuss Gerard Manley Hopkins as a modern poet.

SECTION – B

  1. Discuss aspects of a dramatic monologue in Browning’s My Last Duchess.
  2. What is the thematic significance of Ursula’s friendship with Winfred Inger?
  3. Justify the title Lord of the Files.
  4. Discuss Waiting for Godot as an absurd play.

 

III. Answer any TWO in not more than 500 words each choosing one from each section.   (2 x 20 = 40 marks)

SECTION – A     

  1. Comment on the tone, atmosphere and symbols of “The Hollowmen” and “Journey of the Magi”.
  2. Is Pygmalion a problem play? If so, what problem does shaw wish to discuss? If not, substantiate your answer.                                                   SECTION – B
  3. Discuss Look back in Anger as a protest play
  4. How would you judge Jim? A hero or a coward?

 

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M.A DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

THIRD SEMESTER – APRIL 2004

EL 3800/LE 923 – BRITISH LITERATURE (1670 – 1832)

Date        :16.04.04                                                                                         Max   : 100 marks

Duration : 9 – 12 noon                                                                                    Hours : 3 hrs

PART – A

  1. Answer the following briefly: (10 x 2 = 20)
  2. A present Deity they shout around:

A present Deity the vaulted roofs rebound.

  1. For when the Fair in all their pride expire,

To their first elements their souls retire:

  1. Full many a flowers are born to blush unseen

And waste its sweetness in the desert air.

  1. … That time is past,

and all its aching joys are now no more

and all its dizzy raptures.

  1. Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread

Eternal sunshione settles on his head.

  1. “The practice of stage representation reducess everything to a controversy of elocution”. Expand the passage with refernce to the context.
  2. “Spirits and fairies cannot be represented… they can only be believed”. Interpret the above pasaage.
  3. “See him in the dish, the second cardle, how meek he lieth”. Comment on “second cradle” and “meek”.
  4. “I have a kindly yearning towards these dim speeks- poor blots- innocent blackness”. Explain the underlined words.
  5. “Much remains to sing. Many fantastic shapes rise up but they must be mine in private”.Explain with reference to the context.

 

PART – B

  1. Answer any five of the following questions in short paragraphs of almost 100-150 words each.                                                                                                (5 x 8 = 40)
  2. What does the story of the Little Black Boy convey to the reader?
  3. The situation presented in The Castaway is about a belief present in those times. What is it?
  4. Describe the many soothing effects that the Evening has according to Collins.
  5. What is the central episode of summer in “The Seasons”?
  6. Write briefly on the theme of love in Pride and Prejudice.

16. Critically evaluate Dryden’s estimate of Chaucer in Preface to fables.

  1. Write a short on the theme of Abuse of Reason in Gulliver’s third voyage.
  2. Bring out some of the most striking aspects of Medievalism in Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe.

Part C

  • Answer the following in about 350-400 words each.          (2 x 20 = 40)
  1. a) Bring out the distinguishing features of Sheridan’s The School for Scandal.

Or

  1. b) Describe the three stages of Wordsworth’s encounter with Nature.
  2. a) She Stoops to Conquer is an anti-sentimental comedy – discuss.

Or

  1. “Tintern Abbey” shows many of the characteristics of the Romantic temperament in poetry”. Elucidate.

 

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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

SECOND SEMESTER – APRIL 2004

EL 2800/LE 822 AMERICAN LITERATURE

Date        : 02.04.04                                                                                                                  Max     : 100 marks

Duration :1 – 4 pm                                                                                                                  Hours  : 3 hrs

Section A

 

  1. Answer the following questions in about 50 words (10×2 = 20 marks)

 

  1. He pierced the emblematic or spiritual character of the visible, audible, tangible word
  2. Who is the man referred to in this passage?
  1. Why does Emerson admire him?

 

  1. The time is infected with Hamlet’s unhappiness

Sicklied o’er with Hamlet’s unhappiness.

  1. What is Hamlet’s unhappiness?
  2. How does Emerson connect it with the problem of his society?

 

  1. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in otherman’s transcripts of their reading.
  2. Explain the Context
  3. Is there any contradiction in the idea presented here by the author? Explain?

 

  1. Don’t use such an expression as “Dim lands of peace”, It “Dulls the Image”

What is Pound’s criticism about the expression used here? Explain.

 

  1. Be influenced by as many great artists as you can

What difference do you find, regarding the idea of influence between Pound and Emerson?

 

  1. Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference
  2. What is the choice implied in these lines?
  3. Explain the Universal significance of these lines?

 

  1. The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality
    • Explain the link between death and immortality in these lines

 

  1. Shine! Shine! Shine!

Pour down your warmth, great Sun!

While we bask, we two together

  • Explain the Universality in these lines

 

  1. I’se Emperor yit, ain’t I?

And de Emperor Jones leaves de way he comes and dat black trash don’t dare stop him-not yit, least ways.

  • Explain the agony of Emperor Jones and his arrogance.

 

  1. Astrological sign. I bet you were born under Aries …. They dote in noise
  • What were the feelings of Blanche expressed in these lines

 

 

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Section B

 

PART – A

 

  1. Answer any four of the following in about 200 words each, choosing two from each part: (4×10 = 40 marks)

 

  1. Discuss with appropriate examples the elements of horror and mystery found in Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”

 

  1. How does Hawthorne propound his puritanical principles in his short story “ The Birth mark”?

 

  1. “Thoreau’s main task in Civil Disobedience is to assert the freedom of the American citizen”. Do you think Thoreau succeeds in his effort? Justify your answer.

 

  1. The aim of reality seems to me to be the Supreme virtue of a novel- The merit on which all its other merits helplessly and submissively depend”- Do you think Henry James justifies this statement quite consistently in his essay The Art of Fiction? Discuss

 

PART – B

 

  1. Eugene O’Neill is an expressionist. Illustrate the same from his plays especially with regard to his symbolism and dramatic techniques

 

  1. Anne Bradstreet is a poetess of the ordinary. Explain this statement with illustrations from her poems.

 

  1. ‘Chicago’ is a typical American poem. Comment on this criticism of the poem.

 

  1. “Emily Dickinson is a poetess of interiority and deeper questions of life and death in Because I could not Stop for Death and The Soul selects her own society”. Discuss

 

Section C

 

  • Answer the following in about 500 words each                                                         (2×20=40 marks)

 

  1. What according to Emerson are the three influences that play a vital role in the making of a scholar? Discuss Or
  2. Consider Steinberk’s “ Of Mice and Men” as a social novel

 

  1. Compare and Contrast The Glass Menagerrie and Mourning Becomes Electra

 

  1. Sketch the Characteristics of American Poetry from the prescribed poems of Robert Frost, Whitman and Carle Sandburg

 

 

 

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M.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

THIRD SEMESTER – APRIL 2004

EL 3802/LE 925 – AMERICAN LITERATURE – II

 

Date       : 19.04.04                                                                                                                  Max    : 100 marks

Duration : 1 – 4 pm                                                                                                                 Hours  : 3 hrs

 

  1. Answer the following in about 50 words each: (10 x 2 = 20 marks)

 

  1. There isn’t any corn outside Tildem! There’s no corn! Now, you must’ve either stolen this corn or you brought it.

* Is the accusation levelled against the speaker true? Substantiate.

  1. Everything was cancelled out by this one mistake. This one weakness.

* What mistake is here referred to?

  1. I thought I saw a face inside his face

* What is it that the speaker recognizes here?

  1. Their movement sticks like a fishbone in the city’s throat.

* Explain the meaning of the line.

  1. So I’ve sat on the park Benches, Hungry.

* Comment on the word ‘Hungry’.

  1. They believe in Christ and Longfellow, both dead

* Comment on the significance of the last two words.

  1. Let be be finale of seem

The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream

* How does the image of the ice-cream enhance the meaning of the poem?

  1. What, according to Wallace Stevens is the quality of good poetry?
  2. Comment on the ending of the play by Loraine Hansberry.
  3. Why does the mother decide to give into her son’s request for money in A Raisin in the Sun?

What is the outcome?

 

  1. Attempt any FOUR of the following in about 200 words each: (4 x 10 = 40 marks)

 

  1. Justify the title of the novel, Invisible Man.
  2. Critically examine the theme of war in A farewell to Arms.
  3. Consider Miller’s After the fall as a quasi – auto biographical play.
  4. How does Ms. Maudie influence Scout’s values?
  5. Comment on the significance of the title ‘Night Mother.
  6. Discuss Sylvia Plath’s poetry as an expression of her personal trauma and neurosis.

 

III. Answer the following in about 300-400 words each:                                                                     (2 x 20 = 40 marks)

 

  1. Critically examine the technique used by Sam Shepard to deal with the theme of disintegration of the American family in Buried child.

(OR)

Analyse who is Afraid of Virginia woolf? as an absurd play.

  1. Show how Loraine Hansberry illustrates the poitive qualities of black kinship. What is the role of the mother in effecting this?

(OR)

Show how Sethe moves from fear and hate to acceptance and happiness. What is the message that Toni Morrison has for humanity?

 

 

 

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M.A DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

I SEMESTER – NOV. 2004

EL 1950-TRANSLATION

Date        : 01.11.04                                                                             Max      : 100 marks

Duration : 9 – 12 noon                                                                                    Hours    : 3 hrs

 

SECTION – A

 

  1. Answer any FOUR of the following in about 50 words.             (4 x 5 = 20 marks)

 

  1. What is untranslatability?  Explain with examples.
  2. What is translation? Define and explain.
  3. Explain formal and dynamic equivalence with examples.
  4. Bringout the need for translation in modern society.
  5. Comment on Bible translation.
  6. How does translation become a transformative, interrogative and interpretative activity? Explain with apt examples.

 

  1. Answer any THREE of the following in about 200 words each.

(3 x 10 = 30 marks)

  1. What is perfect translation? What are its qualities? Discuss.
  2. Discuss translation equivalence.
  3. How does a translator tackle the cultural interference in translation? Discuss.
  4. Discuss the role of translation in language teaching.
  5. Discuss the different strategies involved in translating a prose text.

SECTION – B

III. Translate the following items into Enlglish:                                                    (5 x 5 = 25 marks)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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ghf;fpak; bgw;wit/ gsp’;Fj; jiuapy;

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  1. 15. md;id bjurhitg; gpd;gw;wpr;

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ck;ik eh’;fs; kfpH;r;rpnahL

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  1. Translate the following into Tamil:

 

 

 

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M.A DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

III SEMESTER – NOV. 2004

EL 3950-TELL

Date        : 02.11.04                                                                               Max     : 100 marks

Duration : 1 – 4 pm                                                                               Hours   : 3 hrs

SECTION A

 

Answer the following in about 100 words  each.                            (4 x 5= 20 marks)

  1. List the characteristics of a good language teacher.
  2. State the conditions for successful Language learning.
  3. Why do we consider Language teaching a social act and not just imparting knowledge?
  4. “ If you wish to talk well you must murder the language”(a Slavonic proverb). Explain

SECTION B

Answer FOUR of the following in about 200 words each.

(4 x 10 = 40 marks)

  1. Suggest some effective learning strategies suitable for FL learning.
  2. What is Interlanguage and how can it be stretched?
  3. Explain the three principles of Language.
  4. Explain language theory and learning theory
  5. Do you subscribe to the view that “Exciting techniques make good teaching”?
  6. Write short notes on Suggestopedia.

SECTION C.

 Answer any TWO of the following in about 500 words each.

(2 x 20  = 40 marks)

11  Explain the following terms with appropriate examples.

  1. a) Input and intake   b) fossilization and overgeneralization c) pre and post task
  2. Explain why many of our learners cannot speak or write confidently inspite of ten years of English teaching.
  3. Provide an outline of a Task based lesson and explain how you would teach it.
  4. “………..more successful communicative teaching will occur if teachers think carefully of developing methodologies for both accuracy and fluency, than if all the syllabuses in the world were restructured notionally”. How do effective and appropriate methodologies contribute to effective language teaching?
  5. Mention the various stages in syllabus design and describe them in brief.

 

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

III SEMESTER – NOV. 2004

EL 3951-PHILOSOPHY & LITERATURE

Date        : 02.11.04                                                                                  Max     : 100 marks

Duration : 1 – 4 pm                                                                                  Hours   : 3 hrs

 

SECTION I

Answer the following in 50 words each.                                                                         (5 x 3 = 15 marks)

PART A

  1. Explain the definition of existentialism
  2. Freudian concept of ‘Id’
  3. Jean Paul Sartre and the absurd

PART B

  1. Explain briefly Marx’s theory of Alienation.
  2. How does Immanuel Kant define ‘the mind of Man’.

SECTION II

PART A

 

Answer any TWO of the following in 150 words each.                                                (2 x 10 = 20 marks)

 

  1. Explain the various phases of life presented by Kierkegaard.
  2. What is Freud’s contribution in the understanding of man?
  3. Explain what is dread and destiny according to Martin Heidegger.

PART B

 

Answer any TWO of the following in 150 words each.                                                 (2 x 10 = 20 marks)

  1. Write briefly on Darwin’s theory of Evolution
  2. Write a short note on Kant’s Transcendental Esthetic
  3. Comment on the important principles of the Communist Manifesto.

SECTION III

Answer any ONE of the following in 250 words.                                                           (15 marks)

PART  A

  1. Analyse Virginia Woolf’s “To The Light House” in Freudian terms.
  2. ‘Waiting For Godot’ is an existential play – Discuss.
  3. ‘The Hairy Ape’ exhibits the chief features of existentialism.

PART B

Answer any ONE of the following in about 250 words.                                                            (15 marks)

 

  1. Interpret the novel Silas Marner in the eight of Marxian Philosophy.
  2. Critically analyse how Wordsworth’s The Tintern Abbey mirrors idealism

SECTION IV

Answer the following in 250 words.                                                                              (15 marks)

 

  1. Explain the relationships between philosophy and Literature with a few

literary texts as examples.

 

 

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LOYOLA COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 034

M.A DEGREE EXAMINATION – ENGLISH LITERATURE

I SEMESTER – NOV. 2004

EL 1800– NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH

Date        : 25.10.04                                                                                  Max      : 100 marks

Duration : 9 – 12 noon                                                                                         Hours    : 3 hrs

 

IMPORTANT NOTE: Answer PART-A  &  PART-B  in separate answer booklets

 

PART – A

 

  1. Answer any FOUR of the following in 50 words each:       (4 x 3 = 12 marks)

 

  1. ‘They are the fearless bees of the night

They are the wrath of the volcanic mountains’.

Explain the poetic device used in these lines.

 

  1. ‘The gorilla wrestles with the superman’.

Bring out the significance of this line.

 

  1. ‘Caught in the clash of counter claims and charges

When not in the niche others have left,

We fall’

What is the cause for the ‘clash’? Explain

 

  1. ‘Sidi, my love will open your mind

Like the chaste leaf in the morning, when

The sun first touches it.’

Comment on the language of the speaker.

 

  1. ‘Out of my way, book-nourished shrimp.

Do you see what strength he has given me?’

Who are the two referred have? How are they contrasted?

 

  1. Answer any TWO in 150 words each: (2 x 9 = 18 marks)

 

  1. How do the poems from Africa play on the human emotions?

Explain with special reference to the poems prescribed for your study.

 

  1. How do the East African writers view capitalism, communism and socialism?

 

  1. Show how Caribbean Poetry engages a wide spectrum in language continuum – from the Standard English to the Jamaican creolo.

 

III. Answer any ONE in 300 words:                                                         (1 x 20 = 20 marks)

 

  1. Bring out the rich oral tradition of the Igbo society as expressed in Things Fall Apart

 

  1. How does Soyinka combine reform and criticism in his plays?

PART – B

 

  1. Answer any FOUR of the following in 50 words each: (4 x 3 = 12 marks)

 

  1. Yet there are some like me turn gladly home

From the lush jungle of modern thought, to find

The Arabian desert of the human mind.

Explicate the odd connection between ‘jungle’ and ‘desert’ in these lines.

 

  1. The stream has suddenly pushed the papery leaves!

It digs a rustling channel of clear water

Explain the imagery in these lines.

 

  1. Through the frame; that eyeless

Face, unaware of me, excludes

Me from every consideration.

Who is being accused by the poet and for what reason?

 

  1. Feeling the stagnant afternoon

Quicken with the smell of rain.

Bring out the evocation in the above passage.

 

  1. Whatever I do I must

Keep my head. I know

It is easier for me to lose my way

forever here, than in other landscapes.

Why does the poet consider a particular landscape highly dangerous?

 

  1. Answer any TWO in 150 words each: (2 x 9 = 18 marks)

 

  1. Discuss Shaw Neilson as a nature poet.

 

  1. Explain the predicament in which the poet finds himself in Loneliness.

 

  1. Critically analyse Shirley Lim’s Sonnet as a poem dealing with the baffling dynamics of gender relationships.

 

III. Answer any one in 300 words:                                                            (1 x 20 = 20 marks)

 

  1. How accurately is the postmodern condition described in Atwood’s Surfacing?

 

  1. What is the intellectual mission of the novelist according to Chinua Achebe?

 

 

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