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FIRST SEMESTER B.A/B.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION NOVEMBER 2019

(CBCSS-UG)

Common English paper

ENG 1A 02-WAYS WITH WORDS: LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

Time: Two Hours                           (2019 Admissions)                                                     Maximum: 60 Marks

I. Answer the following questions in two or three sentences: (2 marks each):

1. How does Shakespeare use the lark as a symbol in his sonnet? 

2. What constitutes the music of autumn?

3. What is the significance of the colour grey in the expression 'grey hills'?

4. Why do you think are the cracks in grandmother's house 'colourless'?

5. What is the comparison made about the bellies? 6 What do snakes stand for in "snake's bare fangs"?

7. What is the context of the song "The Times They are A- Changin"? 

8. Why did the servant flee to Samarra?

9. Why do you think that the story has been titled as 'A Shocking Accident'?

10. "It wasn't till then that she began to get frightened "what finally frightened Mrs. Maloney? 

11. Why did Mum toot the horns of the car on Wednesday mornings, when she was out on the road?

12. What is a "coloured funeral ?"

(Ceiling 20 marks)

II. Answer the following questions in a paragraph: (5 marks each):

13. Why does Maya Angelou calls death "dear and painless?"

14. Comment on the theme of the poem 'Once Upon A Time'. 

15. Discuss how the story 'Appointment in Samarra' expounds fatalism.

16. How did the winning of the lottery affect the parents and children?

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17. Why does Lucas describe Bores as happy men and the world's axle trees?

18. The need for professional scientist to make a choice in their research goals.

19. Describe the changes brought over the mind of the speaker of sonnet 29 by the "sweet memories".

(Ceiling 30 marks)

III. Answer any one out of the two questions in an essay of 200 words (10 marks):

20. Describe Jerome's inner conflicts about his father's death and his attempts to overcome them?

21. Write an essay on the intricacies of the relationship between Miss Cornelia and Miss Grace Lancaster.

(1 x 10 = 10 marks)

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