NETAJI SUBHAS OPEN UNIVERSITY
BDP Assignment,
December-2019 & June-2020
Elective Course
ENGLISH ( New Syllabus ), (1st Paper),
From the Beginnings to Chaucer : Literature and Language in Evolution : EEG-1
SECTION - A
1. Answer any two of the following questions : 20 × 2 = 40
b) In what does the General Prologue reflect Chaucer’s contemporary life ? Click Here
c) Comment on the representation of medieval life in The Second Shepherds’ Play.Click Here
d) Write a brief essay on French borrowings in the English Language.Click Here
2. Answer any three of the following questions : 10 × 3 = 30
a) Write a brief essay on old English elegiac poetry. Click Here
b) Discuss how miracle and morality plays contribute to the development of Middle
English drama.Click Here
c) Do you think Beowulf is an epic ? Give reasons for your answer.Click Here
d) Compare and contrast the characters of the Wife of Bath and the Prioress.Click Here
e) With references to the Second Shepherds’ Play show how the miracle plays humanised Christian liturgy.Click Here
f) Discuss the influence of the Authorised version of the Bible on the English language.Click Here
3. Answer any two of the following questions : 5 × 2 = 10
a) Write briefly on the contributions of Caedmon.Click Here
b) Discuss Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as an example of allegorical romance.Click Here
c) Who are the characters who belong to the church in Chaucer’s general prologue to
The Canterbury Tales ?Click Here
d) Discuss the third period of Latin Borrowings in Middle English.Click Here
SECTION - B
transcription : 3 + 3
description, curious, between, govern, example, disappoint, educate.Click Here
5. Choose any two vowel phonemes and any two consonant phonemes which occur in the
following words and describe them : 1 × 4
myself, yellow, second, gray.Click Here
6. Scan any one of the following extracts, find the main metre and metrical variations, if
any : 5
a) Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art —
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task ...Click Here
b) I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils ;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.Click Here
7. Identify and explain the figure of speech in any one of the following extracts : 5
a) Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words from mankind !
Be through my lips to unawaken’d earth
The trumphet of a prophecy ! O Wind,
If winter comes, can spring be far behind ?Click Here
b) It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.Click Here
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