www.IndianUniversityQuestionPapers.com C 61683 (Pages : 14) Name. Reg. No... P.G. ENTRANCE EXAMINATION, MAY 2019 ENGLISH ‘Time : Two Hours Maximum : 100 Marks I. Attempt all questions : 1 © Cy * is described as ‘deaf and ‘gap-toothed’ by Chaucer. (a) The Prioress. (b) The Knight. (©) Wife of Bath. so (a) The Miller. In which poem does Keats express his longing for a “draught of vintage, cool’d a long age in the deep-delved earth” ? (a) Ode to the Nightingale. (b) Ode to Autumn. (ce) Ode on a Grecian Urn. (d) Ode on Melancholy. “Elegy Written on the Death of a Mad Dog” is a poem by (a) Samuel Butler. (b) Jonathan Swift. (c) Alexander Pope. (d) Oliver Goldsmith. According to ————,, poets have to be banished from the ideal Republic. (a) Aristotle, (b) Plato. (c) Socrates. (d) None of the above. The “Touchstone Method” is associated with (a) William Taylor Coleridge. (b) Samuel Johnson. (c) Francis Bacon. (d) Mathew Arnold. www.IndianUniversityQuestionPapers.com Turn owwww.IndianUniyersityQuestionPapers.com 2 cae § A common element in Arundhathi Roy's God of Small Things and Anis Salim’s Tales from the Vending Machine is the presence of. (a) Meenachil River. (b) Twins as the central characters. (©) Characters with pronounced physical deformities, (d) None of the above. 7 The figure of speech used in the expression “I want to frolic in the frothy rivers of my faraway homeland” is (a) Nostalgia. (b) Simile. (c) Hyperbole, (d) Alliteration, 8 was dismissive of Shakespeare’s achievements on artistic and moral grounds. (a) George Orwell. (b) JW Goethe. (c) Leo Tolstoy. (d) Victor Hugo, 9 is the author of Sea of Poppies. (a) Amitav Ghosh. (b) Rohinton Mistry. (c) Kiran Desai, (d) Anita Desai, 10 ” is considered to be one of the Movement Poets. (a) TS Eliot. (b) Philip Larkin. (c) Robert Frost. ; (d) Sylvia Plath. 11 The expression, “as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile” is an instance of ; (a) Freudian slip. (b) Malapropism. (©) Spoonerism, (@) Solecism. 3 ae Arve dian Univers tyOvect geewww.IndianUniversityQuestionPapers.com 3 C 61683 12 “The river lay before us, like a python that had just devoured its prey’ is an instance of : (a) Metaphor. (b) Witticism. (©) Simile. (d) Pun. 13 ——— was the king who signed the Magna Carta : (a) Henry IL. (b) Henry If. (©) John. (d) Edward 14 Salman Rushdie’s character Saleem Sinai was born exactly at (a) Noon. (a) The stroke of midnight. (c) The moment the Americans dropped the Atom bomb in Hiroshima. (a) Eleven pm on 14th August 1947. 15 “Here is an oak tree planted in a costly vase,” remarked Goethe about (a) Hamlet. (b) King Lear. () Prospero. (d) Othello. 16 ———— is an example of an allegory. (a) The Castle of Otranto. (b) Animal Farm. (c) Jane Eyre. (d) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. www.IndianUniversityQuestionPapers.com Turn overwww.IndianUniversityQuestionPapers.com C 61683 17 A diphthong is (a) A stressed consonant. (b) An elongated vowel. (©) A gliding vowel. (a) None of the above. 18 Which one of the following is a grammatically acceptable expression? (a) The sands of the sea is numerous. (b) The sands of the sea are numerous. (c) An European in India do not seem to have the same problem. (a) Abour is a long time. 19 A line consisting of five feet each consisting of —-——— followed by a stressed syllable is known as Iambic Pentameter. (a) Two unstressed syllables. (b) One unstressed syllable. (c) One stressed syllable. (d) None of the above. 20 “Daddy” is a poem by (a) Sylvia Plath. (b) Anne Sexton. (©) Walt Whitman. (a) Emily Dickinson. 21 ————translated Kamasuthra and the Arabian Nights into English. (a) Richard Burton. (b) TE Lawrence. (c) Kushwant Sing. (d) None of the above. 22 In the play by GB Shaw, we have the character Bluntschli. www IndianUniversityQuestionPapers.com (a) Saint Joan. (b) Arms and the Man. (e) Pygmalion. (d) Mrs, Warren’s Profession.www.ndianUniversityQuestionPapers.com 5 C 61683, 23 According to Hemingway ‘All modern American literature comes from one book...’ The book he had in mind is ————. (a) The Scarlet Letter. (b) Moby Dick. (c) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (d) Leaves of Grass. 24 Which among the following is not a poem written by WB Yeats ? (a) Second Coming. (b) Sailing to Byzantium. (©) Easter 1916. (a) The Windhover. 25 ————— is the author of The Global Soul (a) Vinod Mehta. (b) Pico Iyer. (©) Salman Rushdie. (4) None of the above. 26 ———— is Shakespeare's last play. (a) Hamlet. (b) All is Well that Ends Well. (c) Tempest. (4) Midsummer Night's Dream. 27 The rhyme scheme of the lines “It had been told an old man had sent e-mails/To some very dubious females/He was asked what they said/But he just shook his head” is (a) a~b-e-d. o (b) a-b-a-b. (c) a~b-b-c. (d) a-a-b-b. 28 ————-did hot win a Nobel Prize for literature. | www.IndianUniversityQuestionPapers.com (a) Leo Tolstoy. (b) Sir Winston Churchill. (c) George Bernard Shaw. (d) Bertrand Russell. Turn over29 30 31 32 33 34 www.IndianUniversityQuestionPapers.com 6 C 61683 is a travelogue. (a) The Jaguar Smile. (b) The Moor’s Last Sigh. (©) Shame. (4) Imaginary Homelands. O. Henry is the pseudonym of (a) Eric Arthur Blair. (b) William Sydney Porter. (c) Hector Hugh Munro. (d) None of the above. The expression “Loud Colours” is an example of (a) Synaesthesia. (b) Cliche. (c) Onomatopoeia. (a) None of the above. A humorous poem with five lines is known as (a) Doggerel. (b) Pentapoem. () Limerick. (d) Heroic verse. ‘The Ivory Throne is a novel by (a) Manu S. Pillai. (b)Anees Salim. (© CP Surendran. (d) Meena Kandaswami. The smallest unit in a language is called (a) Phoneme. (b) Word. (c) Morpheme. (d) None of the above. www.IndianUniversityQuestionPapers.com37 38 www.IndianUniversityQuestionPapers.com . 7 C 61683 ‘Name the famous novel that starts with the line: “Call me Ishmael” : (a) The House of Seven Gables. (b) The Castle of Otranto. (ce) Moby Dick. (d) The White Peacock. ‘The rhetorical device which involves exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis is known as (a) Synthesis. (b) Contrathesis. (c) Discordia Concors. (d) hyperbole. is the author of “A Room of One's Own.” (a) Julia Kristeva. (b) Elaine Showalter. (c) Virginia Woolf. (a) Annette Kolodny. was described as the ‘Wisest, brightest and meanest of mankind’ by Alexander Pope. (a) William Shakespeare. (b) William Marlowe. (c) Francis Bacon. (a) Sir Issac Newton. ‘Langue’ and ‘parole’ are terms introduced by (a) Noam Chomsky. ‘ (b) Roland Barthes. (c) Ferdinand Saussure. (d) Jean Piaget. Langston Hughes's name is associated with (a) Beat Generation. (b) Lost Generation. (c) Transcendentalist Movement. (d) Harlem Renaissance. ‘www.IndianUniversityQuestionPapers.com Turn overawww. IndianUniversityQuestionPapers.com 8 C 61683 41 Benyamin’s Aadujeevitham has been translated into English as —__—— by Joseph Koyippally. (a) Life Among Goats. (b) Goat Days. (c) The Valley of Sheep. (d) Goatdamn Days. 42 is the director of Jurassic World : Fallen Kingdom. (a) Christopher Nolan. (b) Joaquin Phoenix. (c) J. A. Bayona. ? (d) Alfred Hitchcock. 43 ——— the novel that won the Booker of Bookers. (a) Midnight’s Children. (b) God of Small Things. (c) The White Tiger. (d) The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. 44 The term “floccinaucinihilipilification,” recently caused a sensation in Indian media. It means the habit of (a) Estimating something as worthless. (b) Lionizing someone or something. (c) Idolizing someone. (a) None of the above. 45 In “The End of Imagination” Arundhati Roy discusses the : www.IndianUniversityQuestionPapers.com (a) Damages caused by large dams. (b) Implications of a nuclear disaster. (c) Conflict of opinion between Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi. (d) Mishandling of the Kashmir situation.Hi www.IndianUniversityQuestionPapers.com 9 C 61683 46 ‘The word ‘infotainment’ is an example of: (a) An archaic word. (b) A portmanteau word. (©) A jargon. (a) Aslang. 47 The concept of the ‘Negative Capability’ was first introduced by ————. (a) John Keats. (b) P.B. Shelley. (©) TSEliot. (a) William Wordsworth. © 48 The Kiter-Runner is a novel whose locale is mainly (a) New Delhi. (b) Calcutta. (©) Kabul. (4) Karachi. 49 Akkarmashi is the autobiography of (a) Om Prakash Valmiki. (b) Mary Kamble. (c) Sharan Kumar Limbale. (d) Bama. 50 ———— won the Nobel prize for literature in 2018. (a) Haruki Murakami. (b) Kazuo Ishiguro. (©) Bob Dylan. (a) None. (50 x 1 = 50 marks) Write short notes (not more than 200 words) on any two of the following : 1. Affective Fallacy. 2. Aestheticism. 3. Gothic Fiction 4. Bildungsroman. 5. Hamartia 6. Subaltern Literature. 7. Structuralism and Post-structuralism, WWWIndianUniversityQuestionPapers.com (2 x 5 = 10 marks) Turn overwww.IndianUniversityQuestionPapers.com 10 C 61683 III. Attempt a detailed essay on any one of the following : 1 2: Bring out the humor and sarcasm in the plays of George Bernard Shaw. Love as an important theme in modern novels. Shakespeare and the principle of dramatic unities. Write a critical analysis of a post-millennium novel in Malayalam or another Indian language you have read. Write a critical review of the film adaptation of a novel you have read comparing the relative merits of the two media. (1 x 20 = 20 marks| IV. Write a detailed critical appreciation of one of the following focusing on the theme and stressing such features as tone, style, diction and the use of various literary devices. i. Today the world is a little more my own. No need to remember the pain ‘A blue-frocked woman caused, throwing Words at me like pots and pans, to drain That honey-coloured day of peace. ‘Why don't you join the others, what A peculiar child you are!’ On the lawn, in clusters, sat my www IndianUniversityQuestionPapers.com schoolmates sipping Sugarcane, they turned and laughed; Children are funny things, they laugh In mirth at others' tears, I buried My face in the sun-warmed hedgewww IndianUniversityQuestionPapers.com uu C 61683 And smelt the flowers and the pain. The words are muffled now, the laughing Faces only a blur. The years have Sped along, stopping briefly At beloved halts and moving Sadly on. My mind has found An adult peace. No need to remember That picnic day when I lay hidden By a hedge, watching the steel-white sun Standing lonely in the sky. Or Itwas Mrs. Packletide's pleasure and intention that she should shoot a tiger. Not that the lust to kill had suddenly descended on her, or that she felt that she would leave India safer and more wholesome than she had found it, with one fraction less of wild beast per million of inhabitants. The compelling motive for her sudden deviation towards the footsteps of Nimrod was the fact that Loona Bimberton had recently been carried eleven miles in an aeroplane by an Algerian aviator, and talked of nothing else; only a personally procured tiger-skin and a heavy harvest of Press photographs could successfully counter that sort of thing. Mrs. Packletide had already arranged in her mind the lunch she would give at her house in Curzon Street, ostensibly in Loona Bimberton’s honour, with a tiger-skin Tug occupying most of the foreground and all of the conversation. She had also already designed in her mind the tiger-claw brooch that she was going to give Loona Bimberton on her next birthday. In a world that is supposed to be chiefly swayed by hunger and by love Mrs. Packletide was an exception; her movements and motives were largely governed by dislike of Loona Bimberton. Turn over ‘www IndianUniversityQuestionPapers.comwww.ndianUniversityQuestionPapers.com 12 C 61683 Circumstances proved propitious. Mrs. Packletide had offered a thousand rupees for the opportunity of shooting a tiger without overmuch risk or exertion, and it so happened that a neighbouring village could boast of being the favoured rendezvous of an animal of respectable antecedents, which had been driven by the increasing infirmities of age to abandon game-killing and confine its appetite to the smaller domestic animals. The prospect of earning the thousand rupees had stimulated the sporting and commercial instinct of the villagers; children were posted night and day on the outskirts of the local jungle to head the tiger back in the unlikely event of his attempting to roam away to fresh hunting- grounds, and the cheaper kinds of goats were left about with elaborate carelessness to keep him satisfied with his present quarters. The one great anxiety was lest he should die of old age before the date appointed for the memsahib’s shoot. Mothers carrying their babies home through the jungle after the day's work in the fields hushed their singing lest they might curtail the restful sleep of the venerable herd-robber. ‘The great night duly arrived, moonlit and cloudless. A platform had been constructed in a comfortable and conveniently placed tree, and thereon crouched Mrs. Packletide and her paid companion, Miss Mebbin. A goat, gifted with a particularly persistent bleat, such as even a partially deaf tiger might be reasonably expected to hear on a still night, was tethered at the correct distance. With an accurately sighted rifle and a thumbnail pack of patience cards the sportswoman awaited the coming of the quarry. “I suppose we are in some danger ?” said Miss Mebbin. She was not actually nervous about the wild beast, but she had a morbid dread of performing an atom more service than she had been paid for. ‘www. IndianUniversityQuestionPapers.com “Nonsense,” said Mrs. Packletide; “it’s a very old tiger. It couldn’t spring up here even if it wanted to.”www IndianUniversityQuestionPapers.com ig C 61683 If it’s an old tiger I think you ought to get it cheaper. A thousand rupees is a lot of money.” Louisa Mebbin adopted a protective elder-sister attitude towards money in general, irrespective of nationality or denomination. Her energetic intervention had saved many a rouble from dissipating itself in tips in some Moscow hotel, and francs and centimes clung to her instinctively under circumstances which would have driven them headlong from less sympathetic hands. Her speculations as to the market depreciation of tiger remnants were cut short by the appearance on the scene of the animal itself. As soon as it caught sight of the tethered goat it lay flat on the earth, seemingly less from a desire to take advantage of all available cover than for the purpose of snatching a short rest before commencing the grand attack. “J believe it’s ill,” said Louisa Mebbin, loudly in Hindustani, for the benefit of the village headman, who was in ambush in a neighbouring tree. “Hush!” said Mrs. Packletide, and at that moment the tiger commenced ambling towards his victim. “Now, now!” urged Miss Mebbin with some excitement; “if he doesn’t touch the goat we needn’t pay for it.” (The bait was an extra.) The rifle flashed out with a loud report, and the great tawny beast sprang to one side and then rolled over in the stillness of death. In a moment a crowd of excited natives had swarmed on to the scene, and their shouting speedily carried the glad news to the village, where a thumping of tom-toms took up the chorus of triumph. And their triumph and rejoicing found a ready echo in the heart of Mrs. Packletide; already that luncheon-party in Curzon Street seemed immeasurably nearer. www IndianUniversityQuestionPapers.com Turn overwww. IndianUniversityQuestionPapers.com 14 C 61683 It was Louisa Mebbin who drew attention to the fact that the goat was in death-throes from a mortal bullet-wound, while no trace of the rifle’s deadly work could be found on the tiger. Evidently the wrong animal had been hit, and the beast of prey had succumbed to heart-failure, caused by the sudden report of the rifle, accelerated by senile decay. Mrs. Packletide was pardonably annoyed at the discovery; but, at any rate, she was the possessor of a dead tiger, and the villagers, anxious for their thousand rupees, gladly connived at the fiction that she had shot the beast. And Miss Mebbin was a paid companion. Therefore did Mrs. Packletide face the cameras with a light heart, and her pictured fame reached from the pages of the TEXAS WEEKLY SNAPSHOT to the illustrated Monday supplement of the NOVOE VREMYA. As for Loona Bimberton, she refused to look at an illustrated paper for weeks, and her letter of thanks for the gift of a tiger-claw brooch was a model of repressed emotions. The luncheon-party she declined; there are limits beyond which repressed emotions become dangerous. (1 x 20 = 20 marks) www.IndianUniversityQuestionPapers.com