D93723
D 93723
FIRST SEMESTER B.Com./B.B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION
NOVEMBER 2020
(CBCSS)
English
ENG 1A 02-WAYS WITH WORDS : LITERATURES IN ENGLISH
Time Two Hours
(2019 Admissions) Maximum:60 Marks
Section A
Answer at least eight questions.
Each question carries 3 marks.
All questions can be attended.
Overall Ceiling 24.
1. What is the attitude of the city dwellers towards the roadside stand ?
2. What does the poet mean when she uses the word "simpering" in "Old Folks Laugh" ?
3. How does the speaker in 'Once Upon A Time' compare the laugh in the past and now
4. How do the images of 'grindstone' and brass figurines' conjure up the world of the grandmother ?
5. Why does Bob Dylan say that the present now will later be past ?
6. What do you think is the theme of 'Appointment in Samarra'?
7. Do you think Sally is an ideal companion for Jerome. Why ?
8. What might be the probable reasons for Patrick to leave his wife ?
9. How could Dad buy a new car ?
10. Why does Lucas say that everybody is a bore at some time
11. What was the invitation from the office of the president in 1977 that NASA received and why did it decline it ?
12. What is the Confederate Daughters ?
(8 x 3 = 24 marks)
Section B
Answer ot least five questions.
Each question carries 5 marks.
All questions can be attended.
Overall Ceiling 25.
13. How does the meaning of the word "state"
14. How does the poet personify autumn in Keats's poem ?
15. Autobiographical elements in the poem 'The House of My Childhood'.
16. What picture of the mother do you get at the end of the
story 'It Used to Be Green Once'?
17. Snobbery as a mask concealing the wounded inner self of Miss Cornelia, Explain.
18. What images of aging do you see in "Old Folks Laugh" ?
19. Pick out the evidence from the story to show that Patrick is uneasy about revealing to his wife that he is leaving her ?
Section C
Answer any one question.
The question carries 11 marks.
20. Describe Jerome's inner conflicts about his father's death and his attempts
to overcome them?
21.Write an essay on EV Lucas as an observer of life in the light of Bores ?
(1 x 11 = 11 marks)
നിങ്ങൾക്ക് ഉപകാരപ്പെട്ടെങ്കിൽ നിങ്ങളുടെ കൂട്ടുകാർക്ക് കൂടി ഷെയർ ചെയ്യുക
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