Internal Assignment

2019-20

M.A. (Previous) English

MAEG-01 to MAEG-04

Department of English
Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University, Kota
Rawat Bhata Road, Kota-324021 (Rajasthan)
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Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University Rawatbhata Road, Kota (Raj.)

 Internal Assignment
Post Graduate Degree Programme
M.A. (Previous) English
Session= 2019-2020
MAEG-01 to MAEG-04
Department of English

Note: Submit 45 days before your Term-end examination at Regional Centre.

(30th October/April- as per session)

Session: 2019-2020

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 English Language &Communication Skills
MAEG-01
Max Marks: 20
Note: The Internal Assignment has been divided into three sections A, B, and C. Write
Answer as per the given instruction.
Section A
(Very Short Answer Type Questions)
Note: Answer all questions. As per the nature of the question you delimit your answer
in one word, one sentence or maximum up to 30 words. 4x1=04
Q1.
a) Give two examples of words having numerical prefixes.
b) Give an example of a sentence in which the word ‘never’ is used at the beginning of the
sentence for emphasis.
c) The principal appointed him monitor. Write another sentence on the same pattern using a
different verb.
d) Make the following sentences Passive:
i. Her story didn’t take them in.
ii. I am not talking about you.

Section-B
(Short Answer Questions)
Note: Answer any 2 questions. Each answer should not exceed 100 words. Each
question carries 4 marks. 2x4=08
2. Discuss Verbal and Non-verbal as basic forms of communication.
3. What are the disadvantages of electronic messages?
4. What do you understand by ‘kinesics? While writing about its advantages and
disadvantages, show how you can make an effective use of kinesics.
5. What do you understand by Primary and Secondary sources with reference to Research
Methodology? Give examples.

Section ‘C’
(Long Answer Questions)
Note: Answer any one question. 1x8=08
6. What do you understand by Compounding? Examine Syntactic, Semantic
and Generative Approaches to Compounding.
7. Write a paragraph in about 200 words on any one of the following topics:
(i) Corruption free India
(ii) Harmony in minds and Action
8. Write a report on ‘The Menace of Stray Animals on the Roads’
 Renaissance to Jacobean Age
MAEG-02
Max Marks: 20
Note: The Internal Assignment has been divided into three sections A, B, and C. Write
Answer as per the given instruction.
Section A
(Very Short Answer Type Questions)

Note: Answer all questions. As per the nature of the question you delimit your answer
in one word, one sentence or maximum up to 30 words. 4x1=04

Q1.
i) What is the other term for ‘The Spanish Tragedy’?
ii) Who wrote ‘Give Place, ye lovers’?
iii) What is the meaning of ‘Morality Play’?
iv) What advice does Bacon give in the essay ‘Of Revenge’?

Section-B
(Short Answer Questions)
Note: Answer any 2 questions. Each answer should not exceed 100 words. Each
question carries 4 marks.
2x4=08

2. How does Chaucer describe the character of Monk?

3. Throw light on the theme of fate and belief in the play ‘The Duchess of Malfi’.
4. Draw a pen portrait of Mephistopheles.
5. Discuss the role played by Goneril and Regan in ‘King Lear’.

Section ‘C’
(Long Answer Questions)
Note: Answer any one question. You have to delimit your answer maximum up to 500
words. 1x8=08

6. Elucidate ‘The Faerie Queen’ as a continued allegory.

7. Write an essay on the religious poetry of Donne.
8. Discuss the importance of sub plot in King Lear.
 Caroline and Reformation Age
MAEG-03
Max Marks: 20
Note: The Internal Assignment has been divided into three sections A, B, and C. Write
Answer as per the given instruction.
Section A
(Very Short Answer Type Questions)
Note: Answer all questions. As per the nature of the question you delimit your answer
in one word, one sentence or maximum up to 30 words. 4x1=04.

Q1.
i. What is the benefit of looking beneath the surface, according to the speaker of "A Portrait"
in The School for Scandal?
ii. How is “Ode to Evening” a transition poem?
iii. What does the narrator tell the reader to expect in the story in Moll Flanders?

iv. Who are/were among the famous graduates of Eton mentioned in Gray’s Elegy?

Section-B
(Short Answer Questions)
Note: Answer any 2 questions. Each answer should not exceed 100 words. Each
question carries 4 marks.
2x4=08

2. Discuss Absalom and Achitophel as an allegory.

3. What is the theme of gossiping in School for Scandal?
4. What is the relationship between the "I" who narrates the story and Laurence Sterne?
5. Delineate the development of Moll as a character over the course of the novel.

Section ‘C’
(Long Answer Questions)
Note: Answer any one question. You have to delimit your answer maximum up to 500
words. 1x8=08

6. “All elements of Romanticism can be found in Blake’s Poetry”. Elaborate this statement.
7. Write an essay on the Metaphysical poets of the seventeenth century.
8. Write the critical Appreciation of Blake’s “The Lamb”
 The Romantic Age
MAEG-04
Max Marks: 20
Note: The Internal Assignment has been divided into three sections A, B, and C. Write
Answer as per the given instruction.
Section A
(Very Short Answer Type Questions)
Note: Answer all questions. As per the nature of the question you delimit your answer
in one word, one sentence or maximum up to 30 words. 4x1=04
Q1.
i) What is an Ode?
ii) Why was Christabel praying?
iii) Who was Issac The Jew?
iv) How do you distinguish between a simile and a metaphor?

Section-B
(Short Answer Questions)
Note: Answer any 2 questions. Each answer should not exceed 100 words. Each
question carries 4 marks.
2x4=08
2. Write a note on use of humor in Lamb’s essays.
3. Write the character sketch of ‘Ivanhoe’.
4. Write a critical appreciation of ‘Ode to the west wind’.
5. Write a note on the narrative style of Lamb’s ‘Dream Children’.

Section ‘C’
(Long Answer Questions)
Note: Answer any one question. You have to delimit your answer maximum up to 500
words. 1x8=08
6. Explain the satirical elements in Lord Byron’s poem ‘The Vision of Judgement’.
7. Describe the prose style of William Hazlitt.
8. Explain the use of Hellenistic and pictorial imagery in John Keats’ “To Grecian Urn”.